Dr. Patrick Dakum, the CEO of the institute of Human Virology and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore has cautioned that living with COVID-19 will become part of our daily existence for the foreseeable future.

He stated this on Thursday 16th July 2020 at a weekly webinar series organised by ViewPointNigeria tagged the ViewPointNigeria webinar series. Speaking on the topic “Is Living with COVID-19 the new norm in life”, Dr Dakum provided deep insights into the mechanism of propagation of the virus, the current state-of-the-art of clinical research and Nigeria’s response.

Speaking, he said that the complex nature of propagation of the virus, means that everyone has to accept a certain level of disruption to our way of life and that beating the virus requires concerted effort by every Nigerian citizen. He said “if every Nigerian will agree to wear a mask for the next 3 months, we can break the cycle or infection and re-infection”.

The session was moderated by Friday Bako and Longgul Dakwom of ViewPointNigeria and the full recording of the webinar can be found at:

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/6ep1Bbvy231JfNKSsF_wcP4DBLvraaa82yNNr6UPmkofaTx-pjT-oEprydzbGRQQ

Next Thursday 23rd July 2020 has been slated as the date for the next edition of the ViewPointNigeria webinar series. For discussion will be the topic “how to prepare for future pandemics” it will be presented by Prof. Salamatu Machunga-Mambula of the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Abuja. A link to register for this discussion can be found at:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkd–oqT8sH9ULjZcve9t_CW-9ULVQS_8l

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Dr. Patrick Dakum Speaks at ViewPointNigeria Webinar Programme, Cautions that Living With COVID-19 will be the Norm for a Few Years