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What you should know about the new COVID-19 variants in Nigeria

Researchers, led by Professor Christian Happi, at the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) are working to detect SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus variants in Nigeria. Photo source: ACEGID

When 2020 drew to a close, public health experts warned about a highly transmissible variant of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — first detected in the United Kingdom (UK) in September and since documented in over 80 countries worldwide. “It would be naïve of us to think that we will not get the new variants of SARS-CoV-2 […]

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ACEGID in Ede: Science Capacity evolving in Nigeria from an unusual Location

Fehintola Victoria A., a PhD research student at ACEGID, and her colleagues perform genomic sequencing on COVID-19 positive samples to help provide more insight into the circulating virus to inform the response efforts. Photo credit: Nigeria Health Watch

When will the COVID-19 pandemic be over? Will life return to how it was before COVID-19 disrupted it? These questions probably run through every person’s mind often even if they are not conscious of it. But the pandemic is far from over, even though the ease of lockdown measures makes it appear as if the […]