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A new trial of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine by Chilean researchers has found no cases of blood clots. According to a report published on Friday by Reuters, the trial which studied 2,200 participants finds no instance of blood clots. According to the leader of the research group, who is from the University of Chile, Dr. Maria Elena Santolaya, the trial findings show the possibility of a blood clot is very minimal from the vaccination. Santolaya disclosed that his team studied people of all ages, with 20 percent of them over 60 years old. “In no age group, among women or men, did we have any blood clotting of any nature,” she said. Santolaya also cited interim results of AstraZeneca’s vaccine trials among 34,000 people in Peru, Chile, and the United States that showed it was 76 percent effective against symptomatic COVID-19, 100 percent effective against serious or critical COVID-19, and 85 percent effective against symptomatic COVID-19 among people over 65. She stated that data – ga

  The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has accused critics of the embattled Minister of Communications and Digital Planning, Dr. Isa Pantami, of nursing an afterthought and dissipating energy on a belated issue.     This was contained in a press statement circulated to the media on Thursday, 22 nd  April, 2021 by the group’s director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.     MURIC said, “The call for the resignation of the Minister of Communications and Digital Planning, Dr. Isa Pantami, over remarks made as a teenager and long before he became a minister is quite worrisome. The question we are asking is ‘Why now’? Why were those radical remarks not mentioned before now?     “This man is not new in government. He headed a federal agency for four good years and he has been a minister for another two years. Where were those critics when he was appointed as Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) six years ago? Where were they when his status was upgraded and

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged the Minister of Communications and Digital Planning, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, to ignore calls by some people that he should resign.          MURIC made the call on Monday, 19th April 2021 in a statement issued by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.     The statement reads:   “A section of the Nigerian press published reports of calls being made by some people for the resignation of Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami over the fake news that the US had placed him on its watchlist. The second allegation was that the minister had made certain radical pronouncements in the past.     “It is a baseless call and it should be ignored. Afterall, the US itself has denied it. Dr. Pantami has been enjoying unhindered multiple entry to the US for a very long time. Even Facebook, the US based social media giant had Pantami’s picture on Facebook's digital board for several hours as a mark of honor and respect during one of his numerous visits to that co