Healthy living and good jobs, not vaccines, required to combat COVID-19 —Prof Ayade (Video)

Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade, has made another set of controversial comments regarding the fight against COVID-19.

The governor, who had earlier dismissed social distancing as a valid option in the fight, advocating use of face masks instead, has now come out against vaccines, proposing healthy living and good jobs instead.

He also faulted the method being used for testing samples for the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it was not a reliable method.

Ayade, who appeared in a video while speaking with journalists, said the PCRU method was merely for research purposes and should not be relied upon as a testing method.

The governor, who has been known for his divergent views since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in the country, also wondered why the Federal Government had not taken steps to begin a COVID-19 vaccine production in the country, saying Nigeria had great professors of virology who were wasting in the various universities in the country.

READ ALSO: Delta State lifts COVID-19 lockdown order, imposes new measures to fight virus

According to Ayade, a professor who teaches immunology, the serum of those who had fully recovered from the COVID-19 disease could used in a process he described to produce COVID-19 vaccines in large quantities. Watch the video below:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_hM_AXAna3/

Join the conversation

Opinions

Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism

Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.

As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.

If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.

Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.

Donate Now