Schools can’t be shut forever, COVID-19 won’t go soon – Virology prof, Olaleye
Published 25 January 2021
A professor of Virology, Department of Virology, University of Ibadan and University College Hospital, Prof. David Olaleye, stresses the need for adherence to COVID-19 protocols, policy evaluation by the Federal Government, infrastructural development and citizen education as schools resume in the country in this interview with
WALE OYEWALE
Nigeria recorded 2,000 cases of COVID-19 with death toll rising beyond 1,420 as schools resumed across the country on Monday, how wise is the decision to reopen the schools?
As I once said, it is a matter of balance; a very delicate balance between what we have to do and the unfortunate situation of the pandemic. One basic fact is that this virus is not going to disappear just overnight. Increasing the rate of infection is an indication that the virus is getting adopted to human infection. The fact is that respiratory viruses ar
Remembering how I became blind makes me sad 31-year-old computer science graduate
Published 24 January 2021
Becoming suddenly blind can be traumatising for anyone who was born with ‘normal’ sight, hitherto sighted persons tell
ANGELA ONWUZOO
Temitope Lawal had a promising childhood that was devoid of the threat of visual impairment.
The 31-year-old lady, after graduation from the university, joined her mother in her bread distribution business. She planned to establish her own bakery.
The graduate of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, soon became a mega bread distributor in Lagos. In 2018, everything changed. The Osun State indigene became suddenly blind, a situation that threw her and her family into pain and agony.
By AGNES McPHILEMY While a small number of Borehamwood s older citizens, may remember the anti-fascist uprisings in Morocco and Spain that sparked off the Spanish Civil War, few will have experienced these first hand. Miriam Beghin, 87, who lives in Borehamwood, is one exception. She was sent out to the battlefields of Spain aged just twenty, to nurse the sick and wounded. Not only did young Miriam have to put the bloodied casualties of Franco s fascist troops together again, she herself was injured in the fighting, and carried home with her a curious momento. Miriam, who was born in 1916 in Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, started her nursing career at Oxford s Radcliffe Infirmary before moving to London. It was as a trainee at London s University College Hospital, that she and a few others were volunteered by a formidable matron to join the anti-fascist International Brigade and go out to work in Spain.
Tributes to NHS staff and care workers who have died during the Covid-19 pandemic. (PA) At least 220 NHS staff and care workers have been identified after dying with coronavirus. The figure is likely to be higher than those identified in the list as the country endures a third national lockdown amid a rapid increase in coronavirus cases across the UK. Through tributes from loved ones and confirmation through sources such as local NHS trusts and other authorities, the PA news agency has confirmed the names of health and social care workers who have died after contracting Covid-19 since March 11 2020. This chronological list contains people who were working in roles shortly before their deaths where they were likely to come into contact with patients.