[EDITORIAL] Race for COVID-19 drugs and vaccines
At a time the coronavirus plague is imposing a severe strain on the health systems of most countries, research is intensifying across the globe into finding a cure for COVID-19. In this quest, the World Health Organisation says that eight candidate vaccines in clinical stage and 100 candidate vaccines in preclinical stage are being developed in laboratories around the world.
Africa is currently worse off in the global picture, as countries that develop drugs and vaccines take care of their own needs first. The US authorities are administering remdesivir, a drug developed for Ebola , to treat COVID-19. In truth, it takes years for new drugs to reach Africa. COVID-19 has further exposed the decay in the health system. In the initial period of the pandemic, there was no testing centre in any of the 19 states in the North. Lagos, the epicentre of the virus, is struggling to provide reagents, while the Federal Capital Territory is running out of test kits. Personal protective equipment – a critical need for the frontline workers – is a luxury, primarily because Nigeria does not manufacture the items.
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