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Today the report from NCDC has it that additional 13 lawmakers of the Imo state House of Assembly have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). The new cases were confirmed barely six days after a lawmaker, whose identity was not released, tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the state. As it stands now with the new development, it brings the total number of lawmakers affected by coronavirus to 14 total cases in Imo to 243. The infected lawmakers have gone into self-isolation and the State Assembly Complex in Owerri has remained shut since the first lawmaker was diagnosed with the virus.

The Coronavirus Vaccine is no longer a rumour BREAKING: CORONAVIRUS VACCINE launched today in United Kingdom with 800 volunteers The first volunteers for the coronavirus vaccine trial have received their first doses as scientists desperately try fight the illness which has now claimed the lives of 18,738 in the UK. Scientists at the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, have begun the first human trial in Europe by administering the trial injections, which were developed in under three months, to more than 800 volunteers on Thursday. The trial will see half of the candidates injected with the coronavirus vaccine, made from a weakened version of the common cold virus from chimpanzees, while the other half will be given a meningitis vaccine. The volunteers will not be told which vaccine they have received. Microbiologist and volunteer Elisa Granato told the BBC: ‘Well I’m a scientist so of course I want to try and support the scientific process wherever I can and s...