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Although the video has been shared many times since June 2020, Nwannekaenyi "Nnamdi" Kanu, a Nigerian Biafra political activist, and leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a group canvassing for the secession and sovereignty of Eastern Nigeria, on Wednesday reshared it to buttress his claim that American business magnate, Bill Gates, and wife, Melinda said black people must be vaccinated first for COVID-19, AllNews reports.
It is not the first time controversial Kanu took exception to Melinda Gates’ comments on the dreaded virus.
In April 2020, self-exiled Kanu alleged that Bill Gates' family is working in tandem with China to reduce the population of Africa, and Melinda Gates could not have made such prediction if she does not have information about the damaging effect of the virus.
His words at the time in a radio broadcast: “Bill Gates family is working in tandem with China to reduce the population of Africa.
"That is why they did not see anything bad in trying the efficacy of their vaccine in Africa.
“It is unfortunate that Melinda Gates predicted that COVID-19 will be horrible in the developing world, claiming to have seen dead bodies on the streets of Africa, but could not see in America and Europe.
“China does not mean well for Nigeria and the whole of Africa.
"They should have vaccinated the whole of China, a country with more population rather than coming to Abuja and Africa.”
Gates and a foundation led by him and his wife Melinda are working to find a vaccine for COVID-19, AllNews understands.
In February, the foundation had announced that it is donating US $100 million to vaccine research and treatment efforts.
In an interview with TIME Magazine on June 4, 2020, Gates (Melinda) had said, “The first people that need this vaccine are the 60 million health care workers around the world. They deserve to get it before anybody else. Then you start tiering.”
Answering the question of who has the highest need for COVID-19 vaccines after health care workers, Gates answered, “In the U.S., that would be black people next, quite honestly, and many other people of color. They are having disproportionate effects from COVID-19.”
AllNews fact-checks the claim that the Gates said black people deserve priority access to a COVID-19 vaccine.
Although Gates did argue that African-Americans, second to health care workers, should be given priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine once it is available, she did not say that they “must be vaccinated first.”
The headline and its interpretation on Facebook is misleading.
The posts have misled users into believing that Gates wants to test the COVID-19 vaccine on black people.
Word on the street is Bill Gates' new covid-19 vaccine is actually filled with tiny Antifa members who will defund your white blood cells
— Austin Train (@Austin_Train) June 10, 2020
I just deleted Facebook. A brilliant family friend, a PhD, swears to my mom that COVID-19 was invented by Bill Gates so he could introduce the vaccine which would implant chips in people. When I tried to tell her that was nuts, she said “Read it yourself, it’s on Facebook.” BYE.
— Little Havana (@cmkinmia) May 29, 2020
The headline and its interpretation on social media is misleading.
Melinda Gates did not say that “black people must be vaccinated first”.
What she said in that June video was that after health care workers, blacks should have priority access to a COVID-19 vaccine once available due to the pandemic disproportionately affecting people of colour.
Recently, billionaire, Bill Gates finally spoke out against the conspiracy theories doing the rounds on social media that he is planning to implant microchips in people through the COVID-19 vaccine.
Bill Gates has confirmed he will not use a COVID-19 vaccine to implant microchips in people. pic.twitter.com/CR22a9bkOz
— SBS News (@SBSNews) July 23, 2020
Gates told CBS News that he wants the truth to reach people and hoped the fake news “dies down”.
The reports accusing Gates of planning something so outlandish was fuelled by an outburst from the head of Russian Communist Party in May.
Gennady Zyuganov, in a column, attacked “capital globalism” and claimed that the mandatory vaccination plan is a “ploy by so-called globalists to implant chip in every human being so that their movements could be monitored”.
Gates said he wants to bring the coronavirus pandemic to an end and hoped that the theory dies down as people get the facts.
Meanwhile, GSK and CureVac, backed by Gates, are work on developing up to five so-called mRNA-based vaccines and monoclonal antibodies for infectious diseases. mRNA vaccines use ribonucleic acid (RNA), a chemical messenger that evokes an immune response when injected by instructing cells to make proteins that mimic pathogens.
The approach, also being deployed in experimental COVID-19 vaccines by BioNTech and partner Pfizer and Moderna, is yet to be approved in any therapy.
Tech giant Google had recently said that it will prohibit websites and apps that use its advertising technology from running ads on “dangerous content” that goes against scientific consensus during the coronavirus pandemic.
Examples of content that will not be allowed to make money from ads include debunked conspiracy theories, such as the notion that the novel coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab as a bioweapon, that it was created by Microsoft founder Bill Gates or that the virus is a hoax, Google said.
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The China National Pharmaceutical Group (SinoPharm) said Thursday a coronavirus vaccine could be ready by the end of 2020, according to official media.
Chinese pharmaceutical companies completed early trials and are preparing for market entry by the end of the year, ahead of schedule, the Global Times reported.
The SinoPharm, which entered domestic phase I and II trials in April, said results from both phases were positive and without serious side effects.
"SinoPharm was approved at the end of June to begin international phase III clinical trials and [the vaccine] could be on the market by the end of the year," the newspaper quoted SinoPharm Chairman Liu Jingzhen.
A final trial is expected to be completed in the next three months, according to Liu.
The vaccine was jointly developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products and the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products under SinoPharm.
A World Health Organization (WHO) official said Wednesday that researchers have made good progress in developing vaccines against COVID-19, but first use cannot be expected until early 2021.
Other countries, including medical researchers in the US and the UK are also vying to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.
COVID-19 pandemic has claimed over 622,000 lives in 188 countries and regions.
More than 15 million cases have been reported worldwide, while an excess of 8.6 million patients have recovered, according to recent figures compiled by US-based Johns Hopkins University.
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