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Nigeria’s top banker has urged the government and private players to work together to improve healthcare in the country. Not enough Nigerians are covered by health insurance, central bank governor Godwin Emefiele reportedly said in a May 2021 speech read on his behalf. Improving this would help lower the high cost of access to healthcare services, he said. To highlight the gap, Emefiele gave two statistics: “According to a study by the World Health Organization, only 4% of Nigerians have access to health insurance.”
Test to Detect CCP Virus Flawed, Scientists Say
Fragments of dead virus can thwart the diagnostic tool churning out the numbers that dominate headlines
Never in medical history has a diagnostic tool been given so much authority as the PCR test, which has been used to detect if someone is infected with the CCP virus.
Many policymakers rely solely on rising positive cases derived from the PCR [polymerase chain reaction] test, and not on deaths or hospitalization rates, to implement restrictive measures that seek to stop the transmission of COVID-19.
But that “gold standard” test is being called into question as an international team of scientists calls for the retraction of a study that details the first PCR test protocol to detect the CCP virus, claiming there were serious technical and scientific errors.