dr. kemi olunloye, a trained pharmacist and medical journalist in the united states, alleged that president muhammadu buhari’s chief of staff, abba kyari, is dead. the presidency had said that abba kyari, who tested positive for coronavirus in march, was receiving treatment in lagos, but different sources alleged that he was transferred abroad for medical treatment. disclosing the news of his death on thursday, dr. olunloye wrote; “breaking🇳🇬 a high ranking member of president buhari’s cabinet has died ⚰️of #coronavirus #covid9🆘☠️😷 complications. i will give the feds the honor of announcing it. u cannot hide it like yar’adua. i’m not telling because i value national security of nigeria #drkemiolunloyo” meanwhile, while responding to a question on the whereabouts of the president’s chief of staff, abba kyari, at the daily press briefing, the minister of health, dr osagie ehanire, had said kyari’s location was not important, adding that the president’s chief of staff like any other nigerian has a right to privacy. ehanire said: “i want to repeat that every person, including each of you here, has a right to privacy. each of you has the right to tell anyone whether you have been screened or whether you have tested negative or positive and that right is also granted to those who are in public office or vips. “some vips have chosen to disclose by themselves; some have authorised that their own result can be announced and i announced mine; the sgf gave me the permission to announce his; the vice-president also gave us permission. “for those who didn’t give us the permission, we don’t announce their results and we don’t tell you who is positive or negative and we don’t go into the fact of whether they are in treatment or not because it is not part of what the public needs to know. “but let me tell you that all those who were screened and found positive, whether vip or common man, are all in good care and in custody and are being properly taken care of.” https://twitter.com/kemiolunloyo/status/1245677046065500165?s=19 kindly share this story: tweet whatsapp telegram
china, the world health organization and the u.s. national institutes of health have dimissed the theory that the virus causing the global pandemic that has killed more than 2 million people and devastated economies worldwide escaped from the wuhan, china, lab funded by the united states. advertisement health money politics u.s. wnd news center world wnd new evidence ties covid-19 creation to research funded by fauci? coronavirus adviser argued dangerous endeavor a 'risk worth taking' art moore        by art moore published february 1, 2021 at 8:10pm  share  tweet gab share  email  print  dr. anthony fauci, director of national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, addresses his remarks at a roundtable on donating plasma thursday, july 30, 2020, at the american red cross-national headquarters in washington, d.c. (official white house photo by tia dufour) updated feb. 8, 2021: a fact check by usa today from march and april 2020 indicated the coronavirus is not man-made or engineered, but its origin remains unclear. it said, "there is no evidence to suggest that the virus was created in a chinese laboratory. "it is probable, likely, that the virus is of animal origin," who spokeswoman fadela chaib said. the scripps research institute released a study that rejects the notion that the virus was man-made. researchers concluded that if the virus were engineered, its genome sequence would more closely resemble earlier and more serious versions of the coronavirus. advertisement - story continues below factcheck.org stated on feb. 7, 2020, "there is no evidence that the new virus was bioengineered, and every indication it came from an animal. ... all lines of evidence point to the virus coming from an animal. that's consistent with what scientists have learned about the ecology of coronaviruses in the last 20 years," according to timothy sheahan, a virologist at the university of north carolina at chapel hill. it fits with the fact that the virus shares 96% of its genome with a bat virus. "the genetic data is pointing to this virus coming from a bat reservoir," he said, "not a lab." trending: question of election fraud will not go away original story: china, the world health organization and the u.s. national institutes of health have dimissed the theory that the virus causing the global pandemic that has killed more than 2 million people and devastated economies worldwide escaped from the wuhan, china, lab funded by the united states. advertisement - story continues below but there's no disputing the fact, as newsweek reported in april 2020, that nih executive dr. anthony fauci promoted a highly controversial type of research involving the manipulation of viruses to explore their potential for infecting humans. and it's known that more than 200 scientists pressured the obama administration in 2014 to temporarily halt u.s. funding for that research because of the risk of a manipulated virus accidentally escaping a lab and igniting a pandemic. nevertheless, under fauci's direction, the dangerous virus engineering resumed in 2017 and continued until april 2020. now, documentary evidence makes it a "near certainty" that the coronavirus pandemic originated in the wuhan institute of virology in china, where so-called "gain-of-function" research was funded by fauci's national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, according to steve hilton, who is leading a special investigation for his fox news show "the next revolution." significantly, his investigation found a direct link between a bat coronavirus discovered a decade ago in a mine in yunnan province and one that had been engineered in the wuhan lab, 1,000 miles away. hilton noted on his show sunday night that scientists at the wuhan lab published a paper in february 2020 stating they had recently discovered a virus in yunnan province that "showed high sequence identity" to covid-19. however, hilton discovered after running the virus's genome sequence through the nih's genbank database that only one virus was an exact match to covid-19. it wasn't the virus discovered recently. it was the once discovered a decade ago in yunnan province that killed miners who had stirred up bat feces. advertisement - story continues below hilton found it curious that the wuhan researchers not only didn't reveal that fact, they changed the name of the yunnan virus, as indicated by genbank. as evidence that the yunnan virus was manipulated in the wuhan lab, hilton pointed out that the two viruses are the same, except for two key elements: the covid-19 virus is more infectious and can enter human cells in the respiratory system. "those are the exact places in the viral sequence where gain-of-function techniques would be applied, if ... you were funded by the naid to research bat coronaviruses to explore emergences or spillover potential," he said. "spillover potential" refers to the ability of a virus to jump from animals to humans. that exact gain-of-function research, he pointed out, was touted in a nov. 30, 2017, progress report tied to an naid grant. the crucial question, hilton said, was whether the virus at the center of that u.s.-funded work was the one that was discovered in the mine a decade ago. "the match between that virus and the work commissioned by naid is so perfect, it's impossible to believe they weren't," he said. he noted that workers in the wuhan lab were the first identified cases of covid-19 in the fall of 2019.