Alash'le Abimiku

"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."

"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."

"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."

"WHO brings the entire expert together, it is always good to listen to them."

"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."

"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."

"I am honored to be selected to join the Committee, as CEPI is a unique organization with a successful track record of brokering collaborations between researchers, industry, governments, health ministries, and communities to determine what emerging diseases need vaccines, and then supporting the development, manufacturing and distributing of these vaccines to communities globally."

"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."

"It has been scientifically proven that if you get yourself vaccinated, it will reduce the amount of virus you have that you can transmit to other people. You also become better protected against the circulating virus. A lot of the vaccines and boosters are effective against variants that come up.it has to do with our government and policy. It is important not to disrupt travel and flights, but it is reasonable to require a negative test from individuals who are flying into the country from regions that have a high prevalence of the variant. If we do these three things, we are likely to stay above the difficulties and public health challenges caused by new variants."