“There is deliberate or let me say direct mischief on the part of the group parading the false information about the COVID 19 vaccine.
“To me, it is not surprising, it usually happens when vaccines are developed. You remember the polio vaccine, people said a lot of things, they used politicians and religious people to try to dissuade people from submitting their children for the vaccine but at the end of the day, we had to engage thought leaders in the communities.
“In the case of the COVID 19 vaccine, it will be helpful to engage religious leaders” the professor said.
Prof. Olaleye who led a team of scientists and researchers to isolate the variance strain of AIDS virus in Nigeria in 2003 maintained that it is unlikely that the complex and communal efforts used to develop vaccines could be compromised, saying those who are promoting the falsehood about the COVID 19 vaccine are deliberately causing mischief and creating fear in the population.
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image captionHelena named her daugher Mila - short for milagro, or miracle, in Spanish It comes with risks, but then this operation will mean I ve done the best for her. In my mind there was no choice - I just had to do it.
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The Association of Resident Doctors, University College Hospital, Ibadan, has embarked on an indefinite strike over unpaid four months salaries of some members.
Dr Temitope Hussein, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria, on Saturday in Ibadan, said the strike was to protest non-payment of January, February, March, and April salaries of some members of the association.
Hussein said other issues also included the non-enrolment of some members into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, which was affecting the payment of their emoluments.
NAN recalls that the national body of the association, the National Association of Resident Doctors had in April suspended its indefinite strike after ten days.