He’s in good spirit, says doctor US President Donald Trump has reportedly asked to be administered with hydroxychloroquine as he receives treatment for COVID-19 at the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre. Trump’s physician, Sean Conley, made this known on Saturday. You recall that Trump and his wife, Melania, tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday night … Read more
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), says a drug of the anti malarial family, Chloroquine, is effective for the treatment of COVID-19. Speaking during a virtual news conference in Abuja on Tuesday, Mojisola Adeyeye, director-general of the agency, said research has shown that chloroquine is potent in combating the virulent infection … Read more
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said it would stop hydroxychloroquine solidarity trial for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. The global health agency made the announcement on its official twitter page. The development is coming three days after the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rescinded its approval for the emergency use of … Read more
The federal government on Wednesday said the World Health Organisation cannot foist its guidelines on how to fight the virulent COVID-19 scourge on Nigeria. WHO had, on Monday, said it would put on hold the solidarity trial which featured the use of hydroxychloroquine on COVID-19 patients. Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, had said the global health … Read more
Director-general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Mojisola Adeleye on Tuesday said the agency will continue chloroquine clinical trials for COVID-19 treatment. Adeyeye, disclosed this when she featured on a programme on TVC. The development is coming against the backdrop of the suspension of the drug test by the … Read more
Bauchi state government said it has approved the use of anti-malaria drug, Chloroquine, as a medication for the treatment of COVID-19. Governor of the State, Bala Mohammed, gave the authorisation on Wednesday while giving situation report on COVID-19 in the state, at the Government House, Bauchi, Mohammed, who was the COVID-19 index case in the … Read more
As efforts intensify in the search for a vaccine cure for Covid-19 , the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has ordered the manufacturing of Chloroquine for an emergency stock for possible clinical trial treatment of Coronavirus in the country. In a statement to this effect, Director-General of the agency, Prof. … Read more
United States president, Donald Trump on Thursday said the US has approved the anti-malarial drug chloroquine for use as a treatment against the new coronavirus. “We’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately, and that’s where the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has been so great,” Trump told reporters. “They’ve gone … Read more