The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, on Tuesday, said chloroquine is effective in the early stages of COVID-19 infection.

The Director-General of NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, said this during an online news conference, where she also confirmed that the agency received about 40 applications for the approval of herbal formulations for the treatment of COVID-19 from researchers in the country.

Adeyeye emphasised that there was no cure for COVID-19 yet and warned that any claim of cure must be subjected to clinical trials following an approved clinical trial protocol.

“Until a clinical trial is done in a scientific manner, no herbal medicine manufacturer can claim cure or effectiveness to treat COVID-19 associated symptoms.

“I believe that Nigeria’s herbal medicines may be able to cure COVID-19. They have a lot of potentials and it is time to translate the research of herbs into products of proven safety and efficacy, for the benefit of our people.”

Further, giving update on the use of chloroquine for treatment of COVID-19, Adeyeye said that the drug is working but only at the early stage.

“We have realised that chloroquine is effective at the early stage. I was watching CNN about four days ago and heard Sanjay Gupta, the medical doctor, and correspondent mention for the first time that chloroquine can be used prophylactically.

“This was in the US, and to come from him was significant because all the while he had been saying that it was not effective, but this was proving it. If something is working prophylactically, it means that the illness will not progress.”

In her argument, Adeyeye stated that science does not lie but had been mixed with politics.

Culled: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/chloroquine-effective-in-early-stages-of-coronavirus-infection-nafdac/

We have moved ON!

COVID19 is already part of our life. Nobody cares again

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