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Alash'le Grace Abimiku is a Nigerian executive director of the International Research Centre of Excellence at the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria and a Professor of Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who takes interest in the prevention and treatment of HIV.
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WHO brings the entire expert together, it is always good to listen to them.
At the moment, we can see it is spreading in Africa, we can see the numbers. We are hoping that we have all the appropriate measures in place to limit the spread.
If you look at the existence of the IHVN, it is based on obtaining funds and getting grants to do the work, but it does not exonerate the government from investing in research.
Also, physiologically as we grow our immune system also becomes weaker and more vulnerable to infection. Anytime a virus infects the body, it senses something foreign and starts to fight it.
Historically, when a bacterium, in this case, mycobacterium tuberculosis, is exposed for a period of time to drugs, it will develop a mechanism to continue to exist despite the drugs, hence, you see the resistance.
I think the warmer temperature really limits its ability to do well but that does not mean it will not spread.
We do not have as many laboratories we would want to, however, the institute has supported laboratories in Nigeria to get certification urged the country to step its game in quality assurance as regards to laboratory science.
Lagos had a prior history of containing the Ebola outbreak, so the country’s epidemiology and emergency response team was really strong and intervened very fast by closing down borders and putting shutdowns in place across several states.
If 90 per cent of us are doing the right thing and 10 per cent are not doing it, we won’t get rid of COVID-19. The rise in the number of COVID-19 cases is expected since we are dealing more with community transmission.