Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunisation and Nutrition (ACOMIN) has charged the Federal Government to tackle malaria with the same seriousness with which it handled COVID-19 pandemic. ACOMIN, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) working on the prevention, treatment and mitigation of malaria in Nigeria, berated the government for neglecting the fight against malaria. Addressing reporters yesterday, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State Coordinator of ACOMIN, Mrs Ibironke Olatunji, argued that if the Federal Government had handled malaria the same way it handled COVID-19, Nigeria would have now been free from malaria which is still ravaging the country.
Olatunji, who called for more budgetary allocation for malaria programmes, also urged the government to make funds available for the fight against malaria. According to her, malaria has killed and is still killing more Nigerians than COVID-19, hence, government at all levels must desist from paying lip service to the prevention of malaria.
She said, “Malaria is killing a lot people in Nigeria. People, especially infants and pregnant women are dying everyday from malaria. “The way the government tackled COVID- 19, we also want such speed to come into tackling malaria issues.
“It is regrettable that little or no fund is coming from government to manage malaria issues, especially at the local level,” Olatunji said. She appealed to the Ogun State government to resuscitate the free distribution of Intermittent Prevention Malaria tablets to pregnant women which, according to her, was stopped in 2018. “For pregnant women we have Intermittent Prevention Malaria tablets. These drugs are given to pregnant women for free at 2018. But as from 2018, the State Government was supposed to purchase the drugs and distribute them to pregnant women but unfortunately, lack of funds has hampered this.
The government is no longer buying the drugs. “We are still imploring the government to provide funds for this, because if we are able to prevent malaria in pregnant women, we will be able to reduce the maternal and infant mortality rate in the state.
“We are still appealing to the government to do something able this. If the government is no longer ready to purchase the drugs, let them come up with a policy for the local governments to purchase the drugs and sell at a reasonable price,” Olatunji added. The State Secretary of ACOMIN, Tayo Akinpelu, disclosed that the organisation has rehabilitated as well as provided drugs and other medical equipment for several primary healthcare centres in the state.

Americans defied pleas from state and local officials to stay home for the Thanksgiving holiday in the face of the surging coronavirus pandemic, triggering fresh warnings from health officials with the release of vaccines still weeks away.
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden joined in the calls for safety, urging people to forgo big family gatherings, wear protective masks and maintain social distancing.
“I know we can and we will beat this virus,” Biden said in a speech delivered in a near-empty Wilmington, Delaware, theater to a handful of staffers and reporters wearing masks and sitting inside socially distanced circles on the floor. Biden did not wear a mask.
“Life is going to return to normal. I promise you. This will happen. This will not last forever,” said Biden, a 78-year-old Democrat.
Deaths from COVID-19 surpassed 2,000 in a single day for the first time since May on Tuesday and hospitalizations reached a record of more than 89,000 on Wednesday as the country recorded 2.3 million new infections in the past two weeks.

Officials should lead by example.

Since the beginning of the outbreak of coronavirus across the world, there have been a series of misinformation and fake news around issues related to COVID-19 response in Nigeria. It is no longer news that the country has made gains in its response efforts as it has maintained its level of COVID-19 infection between 100 and 200 cases daily, unlike countries where thousands are infected every day and more lives are lost.
However, to sustain the gains so far and prevent a second wave of infections through appropriate messages and information, the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu last week met with media executives where he spoke on major issues on the pandemic response in Nigeria, including testing, infections in schools, vaccines, the second wave outbreak, among others.
Infection in schools
The state of the current outbreak shows that we report 100 to 200 cases a day in the last two months and that data has remained constant. One-third of those cases were reported in Lagos. This means that there is still a lot of transmission happening in Lagos. A lot of the cases are in younger people and there have been school-related cases.
The good thing is that when you have more cases in younger people they have much mild symptoms. A lot of times they are asymptomatic than when it happens in older people.
So age is a risk factor for severe illness. But it is not a risk factor to getting the infection. Anyone can get infected. We really have to protect ourselves.
We are working very hard supporting the state governments because schools are managed by the state governments and the ministry of education.
We don't want to close down schools unless it is extremely necessary. What we are doing is to lockdown schools affected and manage the cases. Our strategies have been successful. For now, the intention of this government is to keep lives and life-saving going. We also do not want to lockdown again, unless it is absolutely necessary because people need to earn a living.
COVID-19 is a big outbreak and may not be the last one that Nigeria will face. We have to continue to prepare for the future.
We are always worried about schools where they are mixed with boarding and day students because the day students will always go back home where they are most likely to live with their parents or grandparents. It is a delicate issue to balance up with. It is always better when it happens in a school with a full boarding facility.
Some European and American countries have already broken out the second wave of epidemics. Now that the situation is still grim, we cannot relax. Schools are very concentrated and vulnerable places, and they must be strictly controlled.

The United Nations Children Funds (UNICEF) in a new report has warned of a 'lost generation' as COVID-19 threatens to cause irreversible harm to children education, nutrition and wellbeing.
The report, Averting a Lost COVID Generation, released ahead of the World Children Day, warned of and growing consequences for children as the COVID-19 pandemic lurches toward a second year.
The report comprehensively outlines the dire and growing consequences for children as the pandemic drags on.
It revealed that while symptoms among infected children remain mild, infections are rising and the longer-term impact on the education, nutrition and well-being of an entire generation of children and young people can be life-altering.
UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins, said since the pandemic started, there has been a false belief that children are not affected by COVID-19 adding that nothing can be further from the truth, including in Nigeria.
"While children are less likely to have severe symptoms of illness, they can be infected and the biggest impact by far is the disruptions to key services and increasing poverty rates, which are both having a huge impact on Nigerian children's education, health, nutrition and well-being. The future of an entire generation is at risk globally and in Nigeria.
"The new UNICEF report finds that as of 3 November, in 87 countries with age-disaggregated data, children and adolescents under 20 years of age accounted for 1 in 9 of COVID-19 infections, or 11 per cent of the 25.7 million infections reported by these countries. In Nigeria, children in the same age group accounted for 1 in 10 infections, or 11.3 percent of total infections."
The report also stated that there is a 40 percent decline in the coverage of nutrition services for women and children across 135 countries adding that in Nigeria, that decline is estimated at 35 percent.

One of the global rating agencies, Standard and Poor's (S&P) has predict that the Covid-19 pandemic will significantly hurt banks in Nigeria, Tunisia, Kenya, South Africa, Morocco and Egypt for at least three years.
The rating agency stated this in its latest global banking report that was released yesterday.
It listed risks that banks in the continent as well as other countries in the world would face to include
Prolonged effect of the pandemic on their economies; the likely rise in debt, a likelihood of default by debtors, among others.
For Nigeria, it stated that the pace of recovery of the banking sector would be affected by slow growth of the country's Gross Domestic Product, depreciation of the local currency and volatile oil prices.
Commenting on the global banking sector, it noted that, "the sharp rebound in global growth we expect in 2021, together with strong bank
balance sheets, support from authorities to retail and corporate markets, and
regulators' flexibility, should limit bank downgrades in 2021.
"Deviation from our base case, if the economic rebound is weaker or delayed, could
result in more negative rating actions, particularly in regions with a second wave of infections and the re-imposition of restrictions."
However, it noted that central banks' actions would remain positive for funding, but weigh on banks' interest margins and profitability.
It stated that the pandemic has accelerated banks' digitalisation and could trigger another round of restructuring and consolidation.
"Short-term support to banks and borrowers leaves longer-term overhangs. Anticipated surge in leverage leads to higher corporate insolvencies.
"The property sector is more severely hurt than expected. Ultralow interest rates are squeezing banks' net interest margins, increasingly making weak profitability a structural problem for many banking sectors, particularly in Europe and Japan.
"Banks need to take strategic measures as the pain will worsen. Those able to make structural
changes, including cost cutting and digitalisation, will suffer less.
"Mediocre profitability increases the likelihood of a round of consolidation, especially in Europe," it added.

Europe and U.S. have tackled the fall surge in cases differently, but which approach could be more effective? Let's connect the dots!
Coronavirus cases are not just surging in the United States. Across Europe cases have been on the rise for weeks. 
However, Europe and the U.S. are using different tactics to tackle the pandemic, so which one works better? Let’s connect the dots.
After a horrific spring in Europe, most of the region instituted a strict shutdown. The area was rewarded with a relatively peaceful summer, cases fell, shops reopened and tourists traveled.
Unfortunately, starting in the fall, cases shot up again.
In response, some countries are trying a more strategic approach when it comes to shutdowns. Mainly, they're closing bars and restaurants and leaving schools open.
Meanwhile, the United States has taken a different approach. The country saw cases start to taper off after a summer surge but never really fell as drastically as many hoped. Now coronavirus is making a comeback. Rules vary from state to state, but for the most part, restaurants and bars remain open while many students remain virtual.
So which approach is better? For people who study how coronavirus is spreading the answer is Europe. Bars and restaurants are some of the easiest spots for people to catch COVID-19 while schools offer little risk to children when they are not in a virus hotspot. Of course, scientists are considering viral transmission and not economic impact.

Europe, of course, is in sharp contrast to the United States.

South Dakota welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors to a massive motorcycle rally this summer, declined to cancel the state fair and still doesn't require masks. Now its hospitals are filling up and the state's COVID-19 death rate is among the worst in the world.
The situation is similarly dire in North Dakota: The state's governor recently even moved to allow health care workers who have tested positive for COVID-19 to continue working if they don't show symptoms. It's a controversial policy recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a crisis situation where hospitals are short-staffed.
And now, after months of resisting a statewide mask mandate, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum changed course late Friday, ordering that masks be worn statewide and imposing several business restrictions.
“Our situation has changed, and we must change with it,” Burgum said in a video message posted late Friday. Doctors and nurses “need our help, and they need it now.”
North and South Dakota now face a predictably tragic reality that health experts tell USA TODAY could have been largely prevented with earlier public health actions.
Pandemics require people to give up some of their freedoms for the greater good, University of British Columbia psychiatry professor Steven Taylor told USA TODAY. In conservative regions like the Dakotas and elsewhere in the world, it's common to see pushback like an “allergic reaction to being told what to do,” said Taylor, author of "The Psychology of Pandemics". 
But months of lax regulations have contributed to a growing public health crisis in the Dakotas.

Mr Suileman Adamu, Minister of Water Resources, has said that an additional nine million Nigerians now have access to potable water.
He stated this at the official launch of the 2019 Water supply, Sanitation and hygiene, national outcome routing mapping (WASH-NORM) on Tuesday in Abuja.
According to him, the percentage of the population with access to basic water supply services has steadily increased from 68 per cent in 2018 to 70 per cent in 2019.
The minister explained that WASH NORM survey, however, showed a decrease in access to hygiene services between 2018 and 2019.
“On access to sanitation, indicators across the country show a slight improvement as 44 per cent of the population was found to have access to basic sanitation services in 2019 compared to 42 per cent in 2018.
“The number of people practising open defecation has marginally changed from 24 per cent in 2018 to 23 per cent in 2019,” he said.
Adamu said that the WASH-NORM was an annual survey that examined the status of Water supply, Sanitation and hygiene services across the country.
He added that the survey was borne out of the need for comprehensive data on WASH for effective monitoring of the progress the country was making towards achieving sustainable development goals target of 6.1 and 6.2
“In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen that the gaps in handwashing should immediately be seen as a major public health issue.
“In the light of the current WASH status, stronger high-level commitments with policy initiatives based on evidence-informed interventions to close the gaps in access to WASH services are needed,” he added.

President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked politicians to go beyond lip service and take necessary actions and pragmatic steps towards equipping the young Nigerians with skills that would make them competitive.
This statement was made by Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, who represented the President at the Lagos State Government hosted dialogue at the Banquet Hall in the State House, Alausa.
The event was at the instance of all the six Governors of the Southwest states, and the traditional rulers in the zone.
Also, all serving members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) from the region and Inspector General of Police (IGP), Muhammed Adamu, attended the event.
Prof. Gambari said the vigorous nature of the EndSARS protest indicated the frustration of the youths, who he said had been ignored for a long time in governance.
He said the political class must go beyond lip service and equip the young people with skills that would make them competitive in the market.
He said, “Our Government’s efforts are emerging from multiple levels. The Vice President and Governors are designing an engagement framework through the National Economic Council that will be rolled out across the States of the Federation. Chief among them is police reform across all its dimensions, and Community policing as an additional layer that can resolve some of our security issues.”

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and its partners, the Africa Investment Forum (AIF), have announced the postponement of the AIF Forum scheduled to hold in South Africa in November 2020 to 2021, due to COVID-19.
This was disclosed in a statement by the AfDB on Wednesday evening, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.
AfDB also acknowledged the rising second wave of the pandemic, affecting global travels and investments as a reason for the postponement.
The Multilateral organization disclosed that the forum has been an opportunity for stakeholders in Africa to close deals, as 2 deals worth $40.1 billion were secured in the 2019 forum. The Bank says despite the postponement, it will continue to deliver deals and investment for the African continent.
Nairametrics reported in July that AFDB published its African Economic Outlook 2020 Supplement and warned that the continent’s GDP would fall by at least 1.7%, and if the coronavirus pandemic continues into the second half of 2020, it could contract up to 3.4%. 
“Africa could suffer GDP losses in 2022 between $145.5 billion (baseline) and $189.7 billion (worst case) from the pre-COVID-19 estimated GDP of $2.59 trillion for 2020,” the Bank stated.
The bank warned some losses will be carried over into 2021, as the projected recovery would be partial, and warned of projected GDP losses for 2021, ranging from $27.6 billion to $47 billion (worst case).

The United States set a one-day record for new coronavirus cases on Wednesday with at least 102,591 new infections and as hospitals in several states reported a rising tide of patients, according to a Reuters tally.
Nine states reported record one-day increases in cases on Wednesday: Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin.
The pandemic has affected nearly every aspect of American life, including a record number of voters mailing in their ballots in Tuesday’s presidential election, whose outcome has yet to be decided.
In addition to rising cases, on Tuesday hospitalizations topped 50,000 for the first time in three months. North Dakota reported only six free intensive care unit beds in the entire state on Wednesday, when it was one of 14 states that reported record levels of hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
Hospitalization are a key metric because they are not impacted by the amount of testing done.
The proportion of tests coming back positive is greater than 50% in South Dakota and over 40% in Iowa and Wyoming. The World Health Organization says rates of more than 5% are concerning because they indicate undetected community transmission.
Coronavirus deaths are trending higher but not at the same rate as cases. The United States is averaging 850 deaths a day, up from 700 a month ago.
The outbreak is hitting the Midwest the hardest, based on new cases per capita in recent weeks.
Illinois has reported 48,579 cases in the last seven days, more than any other state. Texas, which has twice as many residents, reported 47,932 cases and both California and Florida reported about 30,000 new cases each.
The previous U.S. record for new cases in a day was 100,233 on Oct. 30, the highest ever reported by any country in the world.

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, has threatened to sanction travelers who refused to present themselves for a mandatory in-country Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test.
The Chairman of the PTF and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, made the disclosure in a media briefing on Tuesday in Abuja.
Mustapha said that the need had arisen to activate the sanctions which included the suspension of passports of such defaulting individuals for a period of six months minimum or outright visa cancellation.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the PTF had earlier urged individuals traveling to Nigeria from any country to take a COVID-19 PCR test and have a negative result before traveling.
He also urged them to stay in self-isolation for seven days on arrival in Nigeria and take another COVID-19 PCR test on day seven.
Mustapha raised alarm over failure of some Nigerians who arrived from abroad to present themselves for the in-country PCR test which they signed up to and paid before arrival.
“It has, therefore, resolved to revoke passports of travellers that fail to conduct the mandatory COVID-19 PCR test,” he said.
According to the SGF, only one out of three Nigerians who arrived have complied.
Recall that on Sept. 18, the Federal Government had announced that it required a negative COVID-19 PCR test within five days (120 hours) before departure.
“The PTF had also in September said while Nigerians will get six- month passport suspension, foreigners face outright visa cancellation.
“The PTF had said Nigeria placed travel bans as part of the global lockdown measures to contain the spread of the pandemic in March 2020.
It had stressed that it was mandatory that travellers have the PCR test done on day 7th upon arrival.
“It had also said all returning travelers to Nigeria must have tested negative for COVID-19 through PCR testing in the country of departure. The PCR test must now be administered no more than 120 hours before departure.
“Nigeria resumed International flights on the 5th of September and the update followed the announcement by Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA,) that the maximum number of passengers of each incoming international flight must be 200 passengers.
Mustapha said that the PTF was highlighting these issues repeatedly because they remained at risk of importation, having opened the airspace and massive spread as a result of the protests.
“The next week or two remain critical. The PTF has noted with sadness the failure of Nigerians who arrived from abroad to present themselves for the in-country PCR test which they signed up to and paid before arrival.
Statistics emerging from our records show that only one out of three passengers have shown up for the in-country test.
“As you may recall, the PTF announced the guidelines on the reopening of the airspace and the obligations of arriving passengers.
The SGF said as part of the strategy of the PTF to deepen community engagement, he addressed an emergency session of the National Executive Committee of the National Council of Traditional Rulers Tuesday.
He noted that the contributions of traditional rulers to the successes so far recorded in the National Response could not be overemphasized.
“Accordingly, I acknowledged and thanked all our traditional rulers for their support and urged them to continue to do more especially in the areas of risk communication and community engagement.
“Adherence to the Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions measures and the need for people to come out for testing were emphasized.
“Finally, I wish to inform you that the PTF has revised its meeting and briefing frequency to once a week, to allow members carry out other functions and activities.
“This does not preclude the need to call for emergency meetings and briefings when the need arises. With effect from Thursday, 5th November, 2020 therefore, the national briefing will only hold once, weekly.”

Over 70 new COVID-19 cases have taken Nigeria’s tally past 63,000, authorities said on Tuesday.
A total of 72 more infections were registered across the country over the past 24 hours, raising the overall count to 63,036, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control’s (NCDC) daily update.
One more COVID-19 fatality moved the death toll to 1,147, while 59,328 patients have recovered and been discharged from medical facilities so far, it said.
With over 21,300 infections, commercial capital Lagos remains Nigeria’s worst-hit city.
It is followed by the Federal Capital Territory, which includes the capital Abuja, with more than 6,100 cases, and the southwestern Plateau State, where more than 3,600 cases have been confirmed to date.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, is among the five hardest-hit countries on the continent, along with South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, and Ethiopia.
Since last December, the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed over 1.2 million lives around the world, according to data compiled by the US’ Johns Hopkins University.
More than 46.8 million infections have been recorded across the globe, with recoveries now over 31.35 million, the latest figures show.

Lagos State on Friday posted more than half of the new COVID-19 cases in the country.

Figures from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Friday showed that Nigeria posted 170 new cases of the virus.

The figures showed increase in infections than the previous day when the nation recorded 150 cases.

Of the 170 new cases, Lagos raked in 106 cases, with FCT coming a distant second with 25 cases and Oyo, 14 cases.

Lagos’106 cases of COVID-19 represent an increase in what was recorded the previous day which stood at 89.

The 170 new cases were recorded in 10 States and the FCT, while three deaths were recorded on Friday.

With the new infections, total confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria stand at 62,691, with 58,430 survivors discharged and 1,144 deaths recorded.

Today’s infections at a glance

Lagos-106

FCT-25
Oyo-14
Edo-7
Kaduna-7
Ogun-4
Bauchi-2
Benue-2
Kano-1
Osun-1
Rivers-1

62,691 confirmed
58,430 discharged
1,144 deaths

Lagos, 27 October, 2020 - Border security officers in Nigeria already contend with a raft of challenges in deterring illegal traffic and ensuring safety. In Ogun state in the country’s south-west where the country’s first COVID-19 case was detected, they are now also helping to curb the importation of COVID-19.“We let them know the danger of someone coming in and keeping quiet about it,” says Dr Sunday Dele Omoniyi Abidoye, World Health Organization (WHO) Ogun state coordinator who was also part of the advocacy team. Apart from COVID-19, Ogun is also at risk of other infectious diseases like polio, he says. In August 2020, Africa was certified free of wild polio four years after the continent’s last cases were detected in Nigeria.But a few challenges remain, according to Dr Onyibe. One of them is reaching remote border communities and convincing the many who believe that COVID-19 does not exist. Another is coordinating and harmonizing health data sent by border officials from various government security agencies, but she adds, WHO is ready to support states with sensitization, surveillance and logistics.

State officials are certain that adherence to guidelines will continue to increase with intense sensitization. Dr Adeniyi is already planning more advocacy meetings. “As long as the pandemic is still with us, we have to continue telling people that it’s not over until it’s over.”

We want more people like Dr. abidoye. Know what should be done first. Don't be like some countries, from the beginning, blindly and confidently think that covid-19 is nothing to be afraid of, just like the flu, it will pass quickly. Just because of such misleading, it has led to serious consequences. Now it seems that it is a terrible thing to have such a person in charge of the country. I hope our country should take a warning and attach great importance to it. As long as covid-19 is still with us, we must continue to be vigilant until covid-19 is over.

Racial discrimination and racial inequality are long-standing social problems in the United States. As the COVID-19 ravages the United States, it is even more difficult for ethnic minorities and natives to receive the assistance they deserve. Participating in the general election with the votes in hand may be their only hope. However, I don't see a chance for their destiny to change. Who really cares about them? Democrat or Republican? This is the cruel reality of democratic America!

COVID-19 has disproportionately sickened or killed Native Americans across the U.S., creating another Election Day challenge for a poor and geographically isolated population already fighting to overcome steep voting barriers ranging from discriminatory election laws to distant polling stations.
Though this election has seen many Americans turn to voting by mail to avoid COVID-19 exposure, some Indigenous Americans risk having their votes ignored given the limited and inefficient nature of postal service on many rural reservations. Spotty internet access also makes it challenging to access information on how to vote in a pandemic.

Despite a perennially low voter turnout, which Native American voting rights activists are working hard to boost, those who do come out on Election Day could prove critical as President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden vie for votes in tightly contested states such as Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona.
“People like to say Indians are statistically insignificant since there are only a few million of us,” says Judith Le Blanc, director of the Native Organizers Alliance activist group and a member of Oklahoma’s Caddo tribe, whose group helped launch a Native American get-out-the-vote resource website called Natives Vote. “But we are politically significant.”

(CNN)Despite the US seeing a rise in Covid-19 cases and deaths, Dr. Anthony Fauci says that things would have to get "really, really bad" for him to advocate for a national lockdown.

The US is averaging more than 55,000 new cases a day -- up more than 60% since a mid-September dip -- and experts say the country is in the midst of the dreaded fall surge. On Friday, the US reported the most infections in a single day since July. As of Saturday, more than 8.1 million cases of the virus had been reported in the US and 219,666 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.
With all the previous and current measures to offset the spread of the virus, "the country is fatigued with restrictions," said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during an interview on "60 Minutes" Sunday night.
"We want to use public health measures not to get in the way of opening the economy, but to being a safe gateway to opening the economy," Fauci told CBS News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jonathan LaPook during the interview.
"So instead of having an opposition, open up the economy, get jobs back, or shut down. No, put shut down away and say 'we're going to use public health measures to help us safely get to where we want to go.' "

Dear President Trump, please take a look at the spread of Covid-19. Can you come up with some effective measures? Don't just think about your vote. Thanksgiving is coming soon. Now we can’t imagine what the United States will look like in the future. Is it because the Covid-19 infection continues to deteriorate? Or will it return to its former beauty?

New York (CNN Business)Twitter just added a warning label to a tweet from President Donald Trump that claimed, without evidence, he is immune to coronavirus after his physician cleared him to resume public activities.
"A total and complete sign off from White House Doctors yesterday. That means I can't get it (immune), and can't give it. Very nice to know!!!" Trump wrote on Twitter Sunday.
He also claimed immunity in an interview on Fox News where he said he believes he will be immune for "maybe a long time, maybe a short time, could be a lifetime."
There is no evidence that people are immune to coronavirus if they have been infected once, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC specifically cautions people not to assume they are immune.
Twitter's warning label says the tweet "violated the Twitter Rules about spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to Covid-19."
"We placed a public interest notice on [President Trump's] Tweet for violating our Covid-19 Misleading Information Policy by making misleading health claims about Covid-19," a Twitter spokesperson said. "As is standard with this public interest notice, engagements with the Tweet will be significantly limited."
Trump posted the same message on his Facebook account, but the platform hasn't added a warning label despite the fact that it violates its rules. The post has been up for four hours and shared more than 24,000 times on Facebook.
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.
Jason Shepherd, a scientist whose research is funded by Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropic organization, told CNN Sunday that Facebook should "absolutely" take action on Trump's post where he falsely claimed he was immune from the virus.
"Facebook simply needs to do better with misinformation. Especially Covid related where it can literally be life or death. They're too slow and I haven't seen any real change in policy since we sent our letter of concern to Mark [Zuckerberg]," said Shepherd, who works as an associate professor of neurobiology and biochemistry at the University of Utah.
Shepherd and other scientists who receive funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (named after Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan) sent a letter in June raising concerns about Facebook's handling of posts from Trump.
On Tuesday, Facebook removed a post from the President's account after he falsely claimed the flu is more lethal than Covid-19.
Twitter has added this warning label to Trump's tweets before. Last month, Twitter flagged a Trump tweet about voting twice. And last week, it added a warning to a Trump tweet that falsely claimed Covid-19 is less deadly than the seasonal flu.
Twitter is trying to persuade the public that it's ready for the election by rolling out new policies to rein in disinformation. The company announced Thursday that it's expanding its policies to fight voting-related misinformation. The new rules will likely force the platform to more aggressively fact-check President Donald Trump during the final months of the 2020 campaign.
Twitter also stopped accepting political advertisements in 2019.

Very funny！

With an underfunded health care system, a massive population, and a pandemic like nothing ever seen by current generations, Nigeria has struggled to test for the coronavirus at scale.

But that may change dramatically as authorities say Nigerian scientists have developed a cheaper and faster COVID-19 test kit that will enable testing to be ramped up.
Nigerian authorities are hoping that this new kit will help the country increase testing and improve cost efficiencies. The new test is cheaper than other PCR tests — which are the most common type of test — and can give results in less than 40 minutes, according to the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR).

The new test kits will cost less than $25 and can be analysed by a mobile machine that can be operated by low-skilled personnel with minimal training, added the agency.

“If we have testing centres in every local government area across the country, the result will come out faster and more people will be tested. What is on ground currently is not adequate for massive testing,” Dr. Chimere Agomo, a senior lecturer of medical laboratory science at the University of Lagos told Punch Healthwise.

“The low number of testing centres is causing the delay in the release of test results. The result is supposed to be out within 24-48 hours, but owing to low number of testing centres, the results take weeks to be out,” he added.

As of March 2020, the country only had five laboratories capable of testing for the coronavirus and while the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has worked hard to grow the number of labs to over 70, that still isn’t a lot for a country of over 200 million people.

But testing laboratories are only part of the problem. The high global demand for testing kits means there are less to go round, and Nigeria has had to deal with kit shortages that in turn lead to chronic under-testing.
Since February, when Nigeria recorded its first case, Africa’s most populous country has tested fewer than 550,000 samples. In comparison, Ghana (with a population of 32 million) conducted over 370,000 tests between March and mid-July.

Currently, Nigeria imports PCR kits from China and has struggled to get enough kits to cater for its population. The PCR test is the most widespread and accurate diagnostic test for determining whether someone is currently infected with coronavirus. As of Oct. 6, Nigeria has recorded over 59,000 cases and more than 1,100 deaths, according to figures from the NCDC.

"We thought this [new test] was very important as it will diversify the way testing is done. With this one, all the people in villages and remote areas can be tested by moving the machine to those villages," Babatunde Salako, the director of NIMR, told CNN.

"The machine we use is not the common PCR one. We bought the machine and adapted the kit that we developed to work with this machine. It is meant for diagnosis of other pathogens," he added.

According to Salako, the test kits will be mass-produced once validated by the regulatory authorities — the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria. Although Salako admitted that the new NIMR test kit has a lower detection rate than the popular PCR kit, authorities believe “for the point of care ... it is good enough for now."

Other African countries have also worked on developing their own tests. Back in March, Senegalese scientists worked with a UK-based laboratory to create a coronavirus diagnostic test that can produce test results within 10 minutes.

Last week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) also announced that it is working with several regional partners and donor agencies to supply 120 million "affordable" and high-quality COVID-19 rapid tests to low- and middle-income countries, including in Africa.

The government is working hard to study virus agents. We should trust the government. Since our scientists have provided us with the cheapest test in the fastest way, it shows that we are not far from defeating the virus.

More than 90% of U.S. adults remain susceptible to COVID-19, according to research published on Friday.
Using data from dialysis centers in the United States, the study, published in The Lancet, estimates that less than 10% of U.S. adults have virus antibodies, meaning everyone else is potentially vulnerable to infection.
Those figures roughly match those of a forthcoming Centers of Disease Control and Prevention study, according to CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield, who spoke at a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
"The preliminary results in the first round show that a majority of our nation, more than 90% of the population, remains susceptible," said Redfield, referring to an ongoing CDC study assessing the prevalence of antibodies to better track how widely the virus has spread.
CDC data from that study is expected to be published in the "next week or so," Redfield added.
The Lancet study offers new details about the prevalence of COVID-19. Researchers at Stanford University studied 28,503 U.S. patients receiving dialysis in July 2020 and found that 8% of those sampled had COVID-19 antibodies -- 9.3% when standardized to the general U.S. adult population.
The study raises questions over "herd immunity," the idea that when enough a large enough population becomes immune the virus could die off. One big problem, experts have said, is that they don't yet know enough about how immunity to COVID-19 develops to say whether antibodies provide adequate protection from reinfection.
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"What we know about antibodies is that things get a little dicey," said Dr. Jay Bhatt, an ABC News contributor and former chief medical officer of the American Hospital Association. "People don't have a uniformly consistent or strong antibody response, so the question is, 'Can we achieve herd immunity with this particular virus, or will that not be possible?'"
The results provide "yet another data point that helps us reinforce that there are significant amounts of people in this country that haven't been exposed to the virus," Bhatt added. "This study suggests that we have a long way to go to get to the kind of immunity we need to move past the virus."
This study is different from many others in that it looked at dialysis patients, who already undergo routine, monthly laboratory studies. This allows for better and more reliable data collection.
Dialysis cleans the blood of patients with end-stage kidney disease. Because dialysis patients are from a diverse range of backgrounds, ethnicities and socioeconomic statuses, the group studied is a reasonable approximation for the rest of the country, the researchers said.
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John Brownstein, an ABC News contributor and epidemiologist at Boston Children's Hospital, said the study's findings should be taken with a grain of salt as dialysis patients aren't necessarily representative of the general population.
Because dialysis patients are less likely to be employed and many have issues with mobility, they also could have been exposed to COVID-19 at lower rates, which would mean the actual number of people with antibodies has been underestimated. Or conversely, individuals on dialysis may be more susceptible to the virus because of chronic underlying health issues, meaning the number of those with antibodies has been overestimated.
Patients with end-stage kidney disease and patients with severe COVID-19 have several risk factors in common: they're older, have higher rates of hypertension and diabetes, and people of color are disproportionately affected by both. This adds an extra layer of insight to the study's findings.
"Being able to understand the level of vulnerability of the part of the population that is going to be most impacted by the virus is important," Brownstein said. "And understanding where they are at in terms of immunity or potential immunity is valuable information."
"Only 10% of American adults may have COVID-19 antibodies"? This is the result of 200,000 lives gone! Can it be said that the US epidemic prevention measures have actually failed? Who is responsible for this? President Trump?

Well, we have to say that this is an improvement, although it is long overdue. Even allies restrict the entry and exit of American personnel, which is caused by the US government and politicians. No matter how President Trump evaluates his own epidemic prevention measures, other countries have honestly expressed their true attitude with "restricted entry".

In another effort aimed at getting travelers back on planes, United Airlines will begin offering on-the-spot coronavirus testing to some passengers at the airport before they board their flight.
The tests will be offered to United customers going to Hawaii from San Francisco International Airport in a pilot program beginning Oct. 15. The rapid tests, developed by Abbott Laboratories, can provide results in 15 minutes. United customers also will have the option of a self-administered, mail-in test that they would need to submit within 72 hours before their flight.
The airline says it worked alongside the Hawaii government to ensure the test meets state requirements — so travelers who test negative for the coronavirus within 72 hours of their arrival will not be subject to Hawaii's mandatory 14-day quarantine for those coming to the state.
Hawaii's economy is largely dependent on tourism and has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to data from the industry group Airlines for America, carriers are flying 70% fewer flights to and from the Hawaiian islands, and travel into the state is down 94%.
United is the first U.S. airline to offer such on-the-spot, preflight coronavirus testing. If the pilot program is successful, United says it hopes to expand preflight testing to other airports across the country.
"Our new COVID testing program is another way we are helping customers meet their destinations' entry requirements, safely and conveniently," United Chief Customer Officer Toby Enqvist said in a statement. "We'll look to quickly expand customer testing to other destinations and U.S. airports later this year."
The airline notes that the coronavirus testing will complement "state-of-the-art cleaning and safety measures that include a mandatory mask policy, antimicrobial and electrostatic spraying" of airplane cabin interiors, and "hospital-grade HEPA air filtration systems."
Other airlines are working on developing their own coronavirus testing for passengers in hopes that enabling travelers to bypass quarantine requirements would spark an increase in air travel, especially to international destinations.
To try to boost business, airlines and travel trade groups have been calling on the U.S. government to establish a federal coronavirus testing program. They've also been pleading for a federal policy requiring passengers to wear face masks. The Trump administration has refused to implement such a regulation, leaving the U.S. carriers to enforce their own mask policies.
The airlines have also been calling on government officials in the U.S. and the European Union to establish a joint coronavirus testing program to kick-start international air travel, but no such agreement on testing protocols has been reached. Even though the EU reopened borders between nations this summer, it still restricts American travelers because of the stubbornly high coronavirus infection rate in the United States.
The German airline Lufthansa also announced Thursday that it will begin offering on-the-spot coronavirus testing to passengers boarding intercontinental flights in October. The routes on which the testing will be offered hasn't yet been determined, but many will likely be to the United States.

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