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What Nigeria Is Doing To Stay Polio-Free – Health Minister
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production with our reliable source unveil to you the strategies put forward by the Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, to ensure the country stays polio-free.
Afrinity Production can confidently notify you that, Nigeria along with the rest of Africa, was declared polio-free by the World Health Organisation on Tuesday, marking the eradication of a second virus from the continent, since smallpox 40 years ago.
“The chances of a resurgence are chances that we can control if we build up our routine immunisation, which we intend to do,” Ehanire said.
“We are now at about 70 per cent. We know that the remaining 30 per cent is more difficult. So we are developing strategies to expand the coverage up to 90 per cent.
“The difficult areas will be hard-to-reach areas and areas that you will likely not find transport. So we have acquired motorcycles that will be able to carry vaccinators all the way to what we call the ‘last mile’.”
The health minister added that the primary healthcare structure is being expanded to provide services such as routine immunisation.
“And if we have a platform of functional primary healthcare centres, routine immunisation, well established and the surveillance principle is set up – we are carrying out very strict acute flaccid paralysis surveillance – then we should have control of the polio eradication and be able to maintain it.”
Source___Channels TV
Melania Trump makes plea for racial harmony
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production brings to you the speech of the first lady of the United States of America, Melania Trump.
The US first lady delivered Tuesday evening’s keynote address before a small audience, including her husband, in the Rose Garden of the White House.
“Like all of you, I have reflected on the racial unrest in our country,” she said.
“It is a harsh reality that we are not proud of parts of our history. I encourage you to focus on the future while still learning from the past.”
“Stop the violence and looting,” she also said as protests continued over a police shooting in Wisconsin.
Mrs Trump urged Americans to stop making assumptions based on race and reflected candidly on US history.
She added: “I urge people to come together in a civil manner so we can work and live up to our standard American ideals.
“I also ask people to stop the violence and looting being done in the name of justice, and never make assumptions based on the colour of a person’s skin.”
Source____BBC
Jacob Blake and two shot during third night of Wisconsin unrest.
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production make know to you the shooting of another black man by police in the US city of Kenosha.
According to what Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth told the New York Times that one person had been killed.
The violence occurred during a confrontation between protesters and a group of armed men, the newspaper said.
Unrest broke out in Kenosha after Jacob Blake was shot by police on Sunday.
Within hours of Mr Blake’s shooting, hundreds of people had marched on Kenosha’s police headquarters. Cars were later set alight, and police urged 24-hour businesses to consider closing because of “numerous” calls about armed robberies and shots being fired.
On Monday, Governor Evers called up the National Guard to aid local police and imposed a night-time curfew on Kenosha. Police backed up by the National Guard used tear gas, rubber bullets and smoke bombs, protesters said. Some demonstrators were seen attacking cars and property with baseball bats, news agency Reuters reported.
On Tuesday hundreds of protesters marched through the city. A small group threw fireworks and water bottles at police, who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas.
Protests have also spread to a number of other cities, including Portland, Oregon and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Lawyer Ben Crump told a press conference on Tuesday that doctors said Mr Blake had been paralysed by the shooting.
“His family believe in miracles, but the medical diagnosis right now is that he is paralysed and, because those bullets severed his spinal cord and shattered some of his vertebrae, it is going to take a miracle for Jacob Blake Jr to ever walk again,” he said.
Source___New York Times
UNICEF TO SUPPORT SCHOOLS AS IT REOPENS AGAIN
Afrinity Production confidently unveil to you the stand of UNICEF in supporting school as they resume in this pandemic.
As clearly seen by Afrinity Production in the post made by UNICEF in their verified media handle, schools will be supported to help children across the world to access the biding resumption of schools.
According to UNICEF, more than 1.57 billion children have been affected by the escalation of COVID-19 related school closures.
UNICEF said they don’t yet have enough evidence to measure the impact on disease transmission rates. “But the risks to children’s learning, safety and wellbeing are well documented.”
“The longer children are out of school, the greater the risk of sexual violence, child labour and child marriage”, UNICEF said.
“As schools make plans to reopen after COVID-19 shutdowns, it can’t be business as usual. We’re working with governments and partners to invest in better schools – and reach the most vulnerable children. This includes making clean water, nutritious meals, psychosocial support and access to the Internet available for every child”, they lamented.
By Amie T. Camara
Miracles in Nigeria: Abducted Woman Rescued From Well After Three Days
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production with source from Channels TV, disclose to you the Abducted woman who is known to be Mrs Chizoba Eke, who was declared missing in Rivers State, has finally been found, days after she was abducted.
Channels TV said, Chizoba was recovered from a well on Thursday in an uncompleted building at Igwuruta community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state in Nigeria.
Afrinity Production also came to know about the woman is a mother of two and was kidnapped from her home along with her six-month-old baby on Monday, was thrown into the well after severe beatings by her abductor.
Luck, however, ran out on the suspect when he was intercepted with his victim’s baby by a team of policemen on a ‘stop and search’ operation at Omerelu, a boundary community between Rivers and Imo States.
Chizoba’s husband, Eke Eke, confirmed his wife’s abduction and rescue to Channels Television on Friday.
He disclosed that he was invited by the police to come to identify the baby, having lodged a complaint about his missing wife and baby.
According to Eke who hails from Imo State, the suspect is known to him in the area as Mr Chinedu and had attempted to rape his wife when she was pregnant.
Chizoba, who was in pain due to the head injuries she sustained, also narrated her ordeal to Channels Television.
She explained that the suspect came to her house, claiming that her husband wanted her to come to Chinedu’s house to collect some money.
On his part, the Pastor of the Assemblies of God Church in Omoduku, where the victim’s family worships, Reverend Clinton Orie, believes it is the grace of God that kept the woman alive for three days inside the well.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Rivers, Nnamdi Omoni, also confirmed the incident to Channels Television.
He said the Divisional Police Officer at the police station in Igwuruta informed him that a woman was immediately taken to the hospital after she was rescued from the well.
Omoni promised to provide more details on the incident to Channels TV later.
Global Corona Virus Update
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production with an implicit trust from it’s sources, gives you a glimpse into the present stand of the Novel Covid-19 globally.
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 793,847 people worldwide since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Friday.
At least 22,734,900 cases have been registered in 196 countries and territories. Of these, at least 14,298,000 are now considered recovered.
The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.
Many countries are testing only symptomatic or the most serious cases.
On Thursday, 6,209 new deaths and 273,683 new cases were recorded worldwide. Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were the United States with 1,213 new deaths, followed by Brazil with 1,204 and India with 983.
The United States is the worst-hit country with 174,290 deaths from 5,575,386 cases. At least 1,947,035 people have been declared recovered.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 112,304 deaths from 3,501,975 cases, Mexico with 59,106 deaths from 543,806 cases, India with 54,849 deaths from 2,905,823 cases, and the United Kingdom with 41,403 deaths from 322,280 cases.
The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population is Belgium with 86 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Peru with 82, Spain 62, the United Kingdom 61, and Italy 59.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared 84,917 cases, including 4,634 deaths and 79,792 recoveries.
Latin America and the Caribbean overall have 252,233 deaths from 6,501,985 cases, Europe 212,135 deaths from 3,648,960 infections and the United States and Canada 183,376 deaths from 5,699,039 cases.
Asia has 85,076 deaths from 4,322,802 cases, Middle East 33,556 deaths from 1,375,745 cases, Africa 26,964 deaths from 1,159,513 cases, and Oceania 507 deaths from 26,861 cases.
As a result of corrections by national authorities or late publication of data, the figures updated over the past 24 hours may not correspond exactly to the previous day’s tallies.
SOURCES__WHO, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Channels TV
Nigeria’s COVID-19 Cases Top 51,000 As Death Toll Hits 996
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production unveil to you the drastic increase of Corona Virus in Nigeria.
For recording 340 new cases of the novel coronavirus, according to what we get from our reliable source Channels TV
The new infections in Nigeria brings the country’s toll of caseload to 51,304 with a combined death toll of 996; 37,885 persons have recovered from the virus.
The health agency released the latest figures in a late-night tweet on Friday.
Of the new cases, Kaduna reported the highest among the states with 63, while the FCT ranked second with 51.
Other regions with new cases include Plateau-38, Lagos-33, Delta-25, Gombe-21, Adamawa-21, Edo-20, Katsina-17, Akwa Ibom-11, Ekiti-10, Rivers-9, Ondo-5, Ebonyi-4, Cross River-3, Ogun-3, Sokoto-2, Imo-2, and Nasarawa-2.
Source___Channels TV
Coronavirus pandemic could be over within two years – WHO head says
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production unbosom to you the message disclose by the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) that he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be over in under two years.
Speaking in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Spanish flu of 1918 had taken two years to overcome.
But he added that current advances in technology could enable the world to halt the virus “in a shorter time”.
“Of course with more connectiveness, the virus has a better chance of spreading,” he said.
“But at the same time, we have also the technology to stop it, and the knowledge to stop it,” he noted, stressing the importance of “national unity, global solidarity”.
The flu of 1918 killed at least 50 million people.
Coronavirus has so far killed almost 800,000 people and infected nearly 23 million.
On Friday, a number of countries announced their highest numbers of new cases in months.
South Korea recorded 324 new cases – its highest single-day total since March.
As with its previous outbreak, the new infections have been linked to churches, and museums, nightclubs and karaoke bars have now been closed in and around the capital Seoul in response.
SOURCES__BBC, Reuters, Aljazeera
IS MODOU LAMIN MARONG THE NEXT GAMBIA FOOTBALL SAVIOR?
Afrinity Production today draw cognizance on Modou Lamin Marong, a Gambian Sweden based professional football player. He is 22 years old and started his football career since he was a kid.
Growing up in the Gambia and from a small village in Niumi Mayamba in the North Bank Region of the Country. Football has always been his passion since he was young.
Lamin Marong played for football clubs like JONSERED IF in which he scored a total goal of 18 and 12 assist before playing for his present team ROBERTSFORS IK which he joined in less than a month and scored 2 goals.
Staying in Sweden for about 4 years, Marong has scores not less than 20 goals due to his unique skills, his pace, fastness and goal scoring ambitions. He made known of his experience in Sweden and how learning under different coaches has helped him.
Modou Lamin Marong has interviews with BBC and other well known Media houses as he plan further on how he want to take The Gambia to the world.
When ask about what his weakness is, Marong replied “My weakness in football is I hate loosing.”
He further said, “Yes football is My Dream. And I am living in my Dreams now”.
BY Amie T. Camara
Corona Virus Update in The Gambia
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production can confidently brief you on the state of Covid-19 in the Gambia.
The Gambia on the 19 reported 14 new Covid-19 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 77. According Standard Newspaper, not all deaths occurred on a single day; sampling dates spanned from the 14th to the 1 7th August.
Out of the 14 deaths 13 are males and 1 female. The new 172 cases registered took the total number of Covid-19 cases ever confirmed in the Gambia to 2,288.
This made the country to have 302 people in quarantine, 1 , 776 active cases, 198 probable cases and a crude fatality ratio of 3.4%. Banjul recorded more cases than any other location within WRI.
Meanwhile, the Gambia yesterday confirmed another 4 deaths which took the death toll to 81 at the moment.
Credit___Standard___Newspaper
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