Covid - 19 lessons from India
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Covid - 19 lessons from India
With effect from yesterday, the federal government has banned from Nigeria passengers who have been to India, Brazil and Turkey in the previous 14 days. Stiff penalties would be placed on the airlines that break the rules. The regulations are subject to periodic reviews.
By Kayode Komolafe
This is a wise step to take in the light of the surge of coronavirus infections in those countries. The disease caused by the virus, COVID-19, is ravaging those countries more than other parts of the world.
The government is rightly following science on this matter. The Academy of Medicine Specialities in Nigeria advised the government to take proactive steps to prevent transmission of variants of the virus from the epicentre of the pandemic. The Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 also recommended the travel bans.
Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
The federal government yesterday disclosed that two million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine have been reserved for the second dose in the first phase of vaccination.
It has also disclosed that soldiers will give vaccine shots to persons living in areas affected by insecurity.
The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, who made these known yesterday during a virtual briefing organised by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (ACDC) on covid-19 response, noted that the vaccination with the second dose of the vaccine has started.
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The Lagos State Government has placed the United States, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Togo, South Africa, Canada, France, Germany, Uganda, the Netherland, Cameroun, Angola and Rwanda on its watch list as it works to prevent a third wave of the pandemic. x
The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made the disclosure yesterday at a briefing on the state’s COVID-19 update and preparation against the third wave, insisting that preventing the importation of the mutants was the best way to adopt.
“We are preparing and building resistance, but if the third wave enters, the state would prevent it from going into the community,” he promised.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported one more death in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease in Nigeria to 2,066.
The Federal government has placed 14 countries on watch list as part of measures to prevent a possible spread of the new COVID-19 variant. The Lagos State