COVID-19 vaccination: Africa in danger of being left behind – WHO
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Africa is in danger of being left behind in COVID-19 vaccination as prices spike due to competition in other regions.
NAN reports that the agency’s Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, gave the warning during a briefing on Thursday.
Moeti stated that Guinea was the only low-income country on the continent to have received doses, with only 25 people vaccinated so far.
According to her, Seychelles is the only country on the continent where a national COVID-19 vaccination campaign has started.
ABUAD researchers to unveil herbal cure for COVID-19 ABUAD researchers to unveil herbal cure for COVID-19
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The Chemo-Genomics Research Institute of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), in collaboration with the Multi-system Hospital, are on the verge of inventing herbal medicine for the cure of the ravaging COVID-19 disease.
The university’s researchers have also gained a new understanding about the reasons why humans are more vulnerable to infections by the new variant of COVID-19, popularly known as N501Y SARS-CoV-2 mutant.
A statement in Ado-Ekiti by ABUAD’s Public Relations Officer, Tunde Olofintila, on Thursday, said one of the reasons provided by the bio-medical scientists and Researchers, led by Dr Olaposi Omotuyi, is that the new variant is 80 times more effective at binding to human cells and is characterized by faster human-to-human transmission, more rapid progression of symptoms and death.