A substantial proportion of people may refuse or delay taking a COVID-19 vaccine. Shutterstock Steven Lloyd Wilson, Brandeis University and Charles Shey Wiysonge, South African Medical Research Council Vaccine hesitancy is a severe threat to global health, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The term refers to the delay in acceptance or the refusal of vaccines, despite the availability ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka The budget bilateral interaction between the house of assembly committee on health and the state ministry of health revealed that the state is battle-ready for any outbreak of infectious diseases, be it a pandemic or an epidemic. The state commissioner for health Dr. Vincent Ogochukwu Okpala told the committee that the state is in good stead to ...