Currently, there are ongoing races for over 150 COVID-19 vaccine candidates of divergent mechanisms, pathways, and platforms, at various levels in the trial process. Investment pathways into vaccines also follow complex structuring and syndication frameworks.
At the level of this global pandemic, Germany, China, India, Canada, the USA, the UK, Switzerland, and counting, there are multiple ongoing collaborations in pursuit of COVID-19 vaccine candidates of various stripes and prospects.
In the reality of this ravaging virus, the Federal Government in partnership with other stakeholders has pledged to remove all barriers and misconceptions that hinder self-esteem, dignity and safety of women and girls while menstruating. In reality this fact of misconceptions cannot be set aside but in view of a pressing issue, the government ought to strategize carefully.
As of 20th of August, 2020, Nigeria recorded 476 new cases. This now brings to 50,964 positive cases in the country, out of wish 37,569 people have been discharged and 992 people have dead to the virus. That is, Nigeria now has 12,403 active cases.
The federal government made the pledge at a one-day Validation Meeting for Institutionalising of a Menstrual Hygiene Health Management (MHHM) National Action Plan for Nigeria in Abuja on Friday.
Deputy Director, Child Development, Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, Christiana Oliko, said this move was necessary to reduce the misconceptions and practices surrounding menstruation. Why is the government not working on insecurity if coronavirus according to the World Health Organisation will last of at most two years?
WHO statement on Covid-19
The World Health Organisation said Friday it hopes the planet will be rid of the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years — faster than it took for the Spanish flu.
“We hope to finish this pandemic before less than two years,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters from the WHO’s headquarters in Geneva, insisting that it should be possible to tame the novel coronavirus faster than the deadly 1918 pandemic.
Compared to back then, the world today is at a disadvantage due to its “globalisation, closeness, connectedness”, which has allowed the novel coronavirus to spread around the world at lightning speed, Tedros acknowledged.
But the world also now has the advantage of far better technology, he said.
Insecurity
The Kano State Police Command on Thursday ‘rescued’ another 55-year-old man kept in captivity for 30 years in Rogo town of the state.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, confirmed the rescue but added that information was sketchy.
In the meantime, the Federal Government has said the plan to resuscitate the abandoned $470 million National Public Security Communication System was in high gear in response to the security challenges facing the country.
The Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, said technicians were already inspecting the vandalised Abuja and Lagos Closed Circuit Television Cameras for repairs, adding that they were expected to present a report on their assessment soon.
According to reports, the contract for the CCTV project was awarded in 2010 to a Chinese firm, ZTE Nigeria Ltd., to provide audio, video and data information for use by the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies.
Intelligence however revealed that, the project was abandoned in 2011 while the installations of five components, including the video surveillance system and comprehensive, reliable, and robust public security communication technology, were vandalised.
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