32 Nigerian universities workforce as much as work in the direction of the event of covid-19 vaccines

Prof. Rasheed, who was represented by Dr. Suleiman Yusuf, Deputy Government Secretary, Teachers, acknowledged this in Abuja at a information convention on the contribution of the Nigerian College System towards mitigating the impression of the pandemic.

He famous that the researches could be increase over the approaching months.

“As at June 22, not lower than 32 universities are concerned in numerous levels of analysis aimed toward galvanising analysis towards the event of vaccines and non-vaccines.

“As in lots of different components of the world, the pandemic has challenged our information system, which has proved insufficient and insufficiently strong sufficient to answer the challenges.

“Solely few establishments have been in a position to utilise open and distance studying system to maintain college students engaged whereas the pandemic lasted and solely few laboratories continued with analysis and improvement actions.

“Nonetheless, the few who engaged in analysis and innovation work have demonstrated the necessity for a well-funded and robustly organised nationwide analysis and innovation system to catalyse the nationwide response,” he stated.

Prof. Rasheed added that within the space of Genomic analysis, the African Centres of Excellence (ACE), notably the Centre for the Genomics of Infectious Illnesses on the Redeemer’s College, Ede was collaborating with the College of Cambridge for the event of vaccines.

He stated different ACEs in Ahmadu Bello College, Zaria, Universities of Lagos, Benin, Port Harcourt and Jos, which served as nationwide testing and screening centres, had proved that world-class analysis and improvement was attainable in Nigeria.