UK Scientists Consider Kenya for Their Covid-19 Vaccine Trials

UK Scientists Consider Kenya for Their Covid-19 Vaccine Trials

UK scientists have identified Kenya as their alternative place to conduct trials for their Covid-19 vaccine, according to reports.

The researchers drawn from Oxford University said they will turn to Kenya if they fail to get early quick results for the trials in the UK.

They picked Kenya as they feel the Covid-19 pandemic may very well be on the rise in the country.

Questions have been raised over the decision to consider Kenya as a location for the vaccine trial due to its lower number of Covid-19 cases.

As of Thursday, April 23rd, there were 336 confirmed cases of the virus in Kenya, 14 deaths, and 95 recoveries.

 “Can their ‘partners’ decide for us without public participation in this debate?” Narc-Kenya Party leader Martha Karua posed.

Robert J, an immunologist, said: “This is a failure of good scientific communication, & also a case of one partner is sprinting (in action and communicating) while the other one is still walking. The Oxford collaborating partner(s) in Kenya needs to get this conversation going in public. cc @KEMRI_Wellcome.”

The first human trial in Europe of a Covid-19 vaccine began on Thursday in the UK, where two volunteers—both scientists—were injected.

The two are the first of the more than 800 adults, aged between 18 and 55 years, who have been recruited for the study.

One of the two volunteers is 32-year-old Elisa Granato, a microbiologist based at the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology.

“I am a scientist so of course, I want to support science, the scientific process whenever I can and since I don’t study viruses I felt a bit useless these days so I felt that this is a very easy way for me to support the cause. That’s why I’m here and I’m excited,” she said.

 

Comments

Sokora (not verified)     Fri, 04/24/2020 @ 10:01am

Kenya is not a colony of the UK. Vaccinate your many sick white monkeys and leave Kenya alone. We are neither monkeys nor guinea pigs. Shame!!!!

Kenya (not verified)     Fri, 04/24/2020 @ 10:01am

Kenya need to go and test muarubaini and other concoction like kamuti name it in UK. It is a 2 way traffic. If you can do it in Kenya we can do it in UK.

Anonymous UI (not verified)     Fri, 04/24/2020 @ 10:45am

Where are Kenya's gate keepers?
I thought all airports are closed and all tourism halted!! While we see Africa rising, All western countries want to make Kenya a rat experimenting lab using Kenyans because they see us as " shit hole";"monkeys";"grave-yard" and " Merinda Gates" sees dead bodies in the streets of African nations.
We have less dead in Kenya of Covid-19 than those who die of road accidents or who regularly die of natural cause.
Those who want to do their tests in Kenya have a black population in their own countries that they can test on. What is the difference? Our brothers and sisters in their countries are awake and will raise alarm if they try. In our country, our population is asleep and our leaders are quiet.
Could the loans we receive have a relationship with these experiments?
Our citizens were mistreated in our own country and in China, and because of what we owe everyone one of our representatives was quiet or those who spoke did so as "home guards" speaking in favour of China and blaming Kenyan citizens.
Those who are eager to do those tests and those who allow our people to be used as guinea rats need to remember our ancestors and our God is with us. Time for Revelation and Restoration is at hand. 400 years of colonialism and slavery are almost over for the black nation. Let those nations try while our God's judgment is on every nation on earth. China tried the dirty job of discrimination and blaming black people ; see the results; Their "divide and rule policy" since imperialism is failing them now. The black man at all four corners of the world is uniting with every enemy move.
God's great divide is at hand.
Let's watch what happens to their nations this time with their evil moves. We are all are in quarantine. Their foreign imposed gods are in quarantine because we are not attending their foreign churches that were imposed using the sword.
Let us fast and pray to our God to our ancestors for protection and for the scattering of black man's enemies both within and without!!

Guest #13 (not verified)     Fri, 04/24/2020 @ 10:47am

This is not a bad idea so long as kenyan scientists are involved. It is not bad to have variety in all aspects in tests otherwise we will end up with cures that only work for certain segments of society.

Emma (not verified)     Fri, 04/24/2020 @ 11:11am

How can we be 100% sure that they hot the same vaccine, the y will send to kenya for trial. At this point I don't trust anyone

dick moses (not verified)     Fri, 04/24/2020 @ 12:27pm

REMEMBER THE TB VACCINATIONS OF THE SIXTIES IN KENYA? they were not to prevent TB but to put it in your system-- the same thing will happen here.

Fyam (not verified)     Sun, 04/26/2020 @ 02:00am

In reply to by dick moses (not verified)

@dick moses. The very definition a vaccine is a weakened version of the disease/microbe injected into the body. The tetanus vaccine sterilized over 500k women and girls in Kenya. Also wasn't it a PR firm in the UK that does all of Uhuru's speeches and dirty work comes election time....didn't Melinda gates just recently visit state house and we all know Bill and Melinda gates foundation are pushing for global vaccines. I think Kenya has already been sold to the vaccine trials cant trust Uhuruto govt for anything.

fanta (not verified)     Fri, 04/24/2020 @ 01:09pm

am sure they injected them volunteers in UK with a placebo and they will bring the real virus injection trial in kenya...

MjuAji (not verified)     Fri, 04/24/2020 @ 03:12pm

You Kenyans keep on making noise. Trust my word: with the kind of morons in leadership, they will eventually make their way through. Ask yourself. Whey are big mouths like Raila, Mutavati, Uhuru, Ruto, Murkomen, Miguna, etc silent. Because they know that for decades, white people accustomed themselves by trying their vaccines on black monkeys because laws in their countries will never allow it. From polio, measles, aids, plague, to now covid-19, leaders have been given heavy bribes to use their citizens like guinea pigs. Ngoja mtaona tu

Kamande (not verified)     Fri, 04/24/2020 @ 04:45pm

When the researchers fish out some money to our leaders, the trials will begin, like it or not. Our leaders exist for themselves not for us. They will not or their families be used as guinea pigs. The Common man will. Unless people rise up and fight for themselves, nothing will happen, mtadungwa tu!

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