The NAFDAC DG said this at a virtual news conference in Abuja on Tuesday.
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According to Adeyeye, the Chinese Government carried out lots of trials on Chloroquine before it approved its use for treatment on some COVID-19 patients
The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, has authorised the use of chloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19.
A statement by the Director-General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said the agency was notified by the World Health Organisation of the circulation of the tablets in Cameroon
Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director-General of NAFDAC, said in a statement on Monday that a local manufacturing pharmaceutical company, May and Baker, had been approached to produce the drug
The prospect that a pair of malaria drugs will become go-to medications for treating COVID-19 before they’ve been rigorously tested is prompting new safety warnings from heart specialists and other doctors and experts.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has warned that Chloroquine had not been approved for the treatment of the dreaded Coronavirus Disease.
“HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN (an antibiotic), taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine,” Trump tweeted
A medical expert, Dr. Biola Babatunde of Oyedeji Hospital, Gaa-Akanbi Area, Ilorin, Kwara State, has cautioned the public against self medication in a bid to prevent being infected by Coronavirus.
Abayomi made this known on Friday in Lagos on the COVID-19 update
NCDC, in a tweet on Friday, noted that the World Health Organisation has not approved the use of Chloroquine for COVID-19 management.
An Abuja-based physician, Dr. Mohammed Ahmed-Danfulani, has supported the call by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, for American health officials to adopt chloroquine as a potent drug for treating coronavirus patients.
The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria on Thursday cautioned Nigerians against using Chloroquine to protect themselves from contacting the pandemic Coronavirus causing devastation across the world.
The United States Food and Drug Administration has countered President Donald Trump’s statement that it had approved Chloroquine for the treatment of Coronavirus (COVID-19).
This was disclosed by President Donald Trump on Thursday at a news briefing
Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, Minister of State for Health, has cautioned Nigerians on the use of herbal products to protect themselves from Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Contacted, Adeline Osakwe, the Deputy Director, Pharmacovigilance, Food and Drugs Information Centre, said the use of chloroquine and artesunate in Nigeria was being gradually phased out