The Covid-19 Vaccination team, under the auspices of the Bong County Health Team (BCHT), recently visited the main campus of Cuttington University in Suakoko, Bong County in an attempt to have students, administrators, staff and faculty members of the institution vaccinated against the coronavirus pandemic which has become a global health threat confronting many parts of the world.
The team officially visited the University Suakoko campus on Monday, June 7, 2021 and was highly embraced by the CU administration, alluding to the fact that the Covid-19 situation is still of serious health concern since its outbreak in late 2019.
Prior to the arrival of the team, the University’s newly appointed President, Dr. Romelle A. Horton, along with other top-level administrators at the institution, was on numerous occasions publicly seen in the forefront encouraging students and workers of the University to take the COVID-19 vaccine, indicating that being vaccinated and immune against the deadly virus is one of the safer ways to protect or prevent oneself from contracting the deadly disease.
Administering the Covid-19 vaccine at CU main campus, about twenty (20) persons willingly took the vaccine. Among them were faculty, staff and students. The vaccine was also administered to some key staff and faculty members at the CU Graduate School in Monrovia, including Dr. Roosevelt Jayjay and others. This decision on the part of the University, however, is a clear manifestation of its courageous efforts and commitment to joining the Government of Liberia and its national and international partners in the sustained fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
It can be recalled in 2019, when cases of pneumonia of unknown cause were first discovered in Wuhan City, China and later reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31, 2019, a novel corona virus was identified as “2019-nCoV.”
Following its discovery, the virus rapidly spread across the globe thereby slowing economic activities and placing several restrictions on human social interactions and movements across national and international boundaries around the world. Without any further doubts, the Covid-19 pandemic is still alarming in many areas or regions as there have been stringent measures/health protocols instituted by governments and institutions everywhere to protect individual lives.
Due to the rapid spread of the virus, efforts were globally intensified by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partnering institutions and governments to find a remedy to the situation which has been posing serious health threats to people. This subsequently led to the development of Vaccines (also called “COVAX”).
Scientists have however gathered that the COVID-19 vaccine is intended to provide acquired immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome ‘coronavirus 2’ (SARS-CoV-2), the virus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). According to scientific findings, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an established body of knowledge about the structure and function of coronavirus causing diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS), which enabled accelerated development of various technologies regarding the virus during early 2020.
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