The same drug that worsened the symptons of about 60% of covid19 patients in the US

The Lagos State Government has said it will commence chloroquine clinical trial for the treatment of the novel coronavirus disease within the next one week or thereabouts.

This is sequel to the approval by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control that chloroquine could be used for the clinical trial treatment of the deadly disease.

There were 386 new cases on Friday, pushing the total cases in the country to 3,912. The number of deaths increased to 117 while 679 persons have been discharged so far.

The state Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, said at a media briefing in Ikeja on Friday that there would be three arms of the trial, capturing treatment, prevention and care for high-risk individuals, like elderly persons with underlying ailments such as hypertension, diabetes and obesity.

Findings by Saturday PUNCH revealed that the state submitted its final protocol to NAFDAC on Thursday evening as it awaits the approval of the agency in preparation for the commencement of the hydroxychloroquine clinical trial treatment next week.

NAFDAC, which approves medicines meant for clinical trials, had on March 20 approved the use of chloroquine for clinical trial treatment of the novel disease, warning however that the approval was not for the drug to be used as a treatment for the virus.

The Director-General, NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, also confirmed to Saturday PUNCH a few weeks ago that only Lagos State, which has the highest number of cases and is the epicentre of the virus in the country, had signified interest in using the drug for a clinical trial to find treatment for the virus.

And in a recent interview with one of our correspondents, the DG said the state government had sent its protocol to NAFDAC for final approval which would allow it to begin the clinical trial.

She said, “For a clinical trial, you will have to write a protocol and Lagos State submitted its protocol to us. We vetted it back and forth and now they are about to start. It has to be well designed because whatever comes to the scientific world must be defensible. That is the essence of clinical trial treatment planning.

“It has to be well thought out. How many patients will give us a statistical result that will be interpreted well and give a level of confidence? So, these are the kinds of things that go into a clinical trial protocol. We have come alongside Lagos State to review their protocols and they are about to start.”

However, the commissioner said on April 7 that the state had concluded plans to start COVID-19 clinical trial in partnership with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and other institutions.

Meanwhile, addressing journalists on Friday, Abayomi said the clinical trials were coming at the most appropriate time given the number of cases the state had been recording in recent times. He noted that the state would use hydroxychloroquine produced by original manufacturers and not the generic one and that the state was set to receive “thousands and thousands of the tablets.”

The number of cases in the state rose by 176 on Friday to 1,667.

He said, “To put together a clinical trial is a very difficult thing; there are people that specialise in clinical trial research. We have to perform the clinical trial in such a way that we would be able to get a very clear result out of it and it won’t have any bias.

“We are planning almost three arms of the hydroxychloroquine trial; one arm of the trial would be for treatment. In other words, if you present with COVID-19 and you test positive, does hydroxyl chloroquine improve your chances of not dying from it or does it shorten the amount of time between when you are diagnosed and when you are cleared of the virus and you are ready to be discharged?

“We are also using it as prevention. For example, if you want to test, when you give the hydroxychloroquine to the health care professionals as prevention, does it protect them from getting infected by COVID-19?

“We also want to use it among people in the communities who have high risk. For example, somebody who is over the age of 70 with hypertension, diabetes or obesity, we know that if you have COVID-19, you are at risk of developing severe to critical symptoms, so if we give members of the public on this clinical trial access to the original hydroxychloroquine, we will protect certain high risk persons from developing or contracting COVID-19.

“These are the arms we are developing in our clinical trial strategy. There is a lot happening around this activity and I think within the next week or so, we would have commenced the trials.”

The commissioner noted that it needed NAFDAC’s permission, ethics approval and recruitment of the participants in the trial.
https://punchng.com/coronavirus-lagos-may-begin-chloroquine-clinical-trial-next-week/

WHY DON'T LAGOS TAKE UP THE PATENT RIGHT OF THE MADASGACAR WHO DEVELOPED A CURE FOR CORONAVIRUS AND THEN SCALE IT UP FROM THERE.

Why go and start a fresh experiment that will led to STORY THAT TOUCH and also waste time and money.

Madagascar herbalist developed a cure for the novel coronavirus

God help you

NaijaRoyalty:

https://punchng.com/coronavirus-lagos-may-begin-chloroquine-clinical-trial-next-week/

See all these fools. We know that any fever drugs can cure this virus. And some people have tried it, it works. Some have treated themselves at home. But because the government is not sincere they don't want the general.public to know that ordinary N200 panadol and Leonart or chloroquine tablet can cure what they have spent billions of naira for.
God go begin to punish all of you one by one as God is punishing Abacha and his family.

awhybliss:
I was told we should view the pandemic as a "war".. fine, during a war, solutions are sort out for, to win and to save lives isn't it? No matter how foolish or wise the solution might be, since it's work and it's bringing "result" why not take the chance?. Madagascar herbs has been curing this virus, no death recorded, (is this by luck or Chance with over 200 cases?), Why cant we source for there solution?. NOTE: This herb tonic is been handled and passed by health experts, professionals in the field, they will never put what is hazardous to the health to the public..
Someone once told me W.H.O didn't approve it herb? But this is the most accessible means to "save lives", are we going to hang-on and continue counting death rate till the W.H.O get a vaccine by the end of this year probably? Must we depend our live-saving solution on only a source because we are part of the organization as a country? Since the herb has been used, is there any side effects that is causing people to die after following the prescription and instructions duly?
We need to think!
Our lives is our responsibility to protect with all possible means...
NOTE: if this sound like a trash to you, Fine
Ok relax, cross leg, take a coffee and let count death toll till when vaccine is ready by September or next year... Happy death counting

They should use Madagascar tonic,
Is an African herbs, it will be nice Africans.

Pls no CNN staff should jump on this thread!

But naija tire me o.
Since months ago when many doctors were talking about its efficacy!
Which kind people dey for this country? Very useless!
Am so angry right now!

Wait ooh!!


What have they been doing since?


Why do we always come late for the party??


This is exhausting

Something they should have started since.

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NAFDAC, a wasted organization..

GamalNasser:
One Kobojunkie and his fellow CNN puppets will not like this ,... Chloroquine and Artemisinin have consistently delivered a 99% cure rate and just yesterday an study showed chloroquine could even act as a very reliable prophylaxy by preventing infections in the first place especially for those at the Frontline but yet Satanic agents with an agenda and dull people are waiting for a hurry put together RNA vaccine that will not go through proper trial and is expected to kill 15% of it's users ....is this world not mad so?

u are a dunce, keep believing everything Trump tells u if chroloquine is that effective y deos the US have the highest infection & death rate. u are even outdated sef nobody talks abut chloroquine again in the US even trump, remesidivir is the new drug for clinical trial.

Gforce2015:



See all these fools. We know that any fever drugs can cure this virus. And some people have tried it, it works. Some have treated themselves at home. But because the government is not sincere they don't want the general.public to know that ordinary N200 panadol and Leonart or chloroquine tablet can cure what they have spent billions of naira for.
God go begin to punish all of you one by one as God is punishing Abacha and his family.

Dont mind them. If u come out to say it works they will jump on u and tell u WHO has not validated claims.
I dont just know what is wrong with this country.
Even they bauchi state governor talked about it and they got angry

Nwanyiogwashi:
Nonsense what stops you people from trying Madagascar vaccine must you people follow America recommendation

Naa pride dey kill them...giant of Africa indeed

byinks:


What if it's just a trial to discredit hydrochloroquine ?

Before Lasg come out with this statement, be assured that they have used it to cure some of the patients.

Coronavirus is just an ordinary fever. Fever can kill if not promptly treated and you can survive from it if you are treated.

well I believe local herbs will do a better job on this Covid-19 matter

GamalNasser:
One Kobojunkie and his fellow CNN puppets will not like this ,... Chloroquine and Artemisinin have consistently delivered a 99% cure rate and just yesterday an study showed chloroquine could even act as a very reliable prophylaxy by preventing infections in the first place especially for those at the Frontline but yet Satanic agents with an agenda and dull people are waiting for a hurry put together RNA vaccine that will not go through proper trial and is expected to kill 15% of it's users ....is this world not mad so?

wirinet is another one that will not like this. CNN puppets indeed

Copy and paste leaders, which fake trial did NAFDAC conduct?

When Trump announced and FDA denied usage, NAFDAC also sent..
When FDA approves it usage, NAFDAC too turn around to claim approval.

Now remdesivir is out, they are touting it again

Forget the certificate, most Nigeria leaders are dull mentally and unfortunately they've infected the citizens too.

wink2015:


WHY DON'T LAGOS TAKE UP THE PATENT RIGHT OF THE MADASGACAR WHO DEVELOPED A CURE FOR CORONAVIRUS AND THEN SCALE IT UP FROM THERE.

Why go and start a fresh experiment that will led to STORY THAT TOUCH and also waste time and money.

Madagascar herbalist developed a cure for the novel coronavirus

Don't mind them..we play politics with everything in this country. We have some knowledgeable trado-herbal doctors and virologist that can come out with something substantial concerning this novel coronavirus but refuse to call them. They want this coronavirus to continue so that they can be milking the country dry from it.

Some have made a lot of money during this lockdown and some have used this lockdown to siphon public funds. It was during this lockdown that some office was set ablaze. Do you know what could have gone underneath because they will tell us that the records are missing?

better late than never

Galactico4ever:
The same drug that worsened the symptons of about 60% of covid19 patients in the US

disadvantage of listening to a political influenced media, common sense should tell a Nigerian that chloroquine is effective for flu, but no, you people will leave sense behind

They should just connect with Madagascar sharply, make we save all out people, no need to wait for those white monkeys all the time.

Nwanyiogwashi:
Nonsense what stops you people from trying Madagascar vaccine must you people follow America recommendation

Hydroxychloroquine is also produced in Lagos. Various pharmaceutical companies produce it.

Not only chloroquine, zithromax ,zinc sulphate should be included and the the right regimen should be taken.
Chloroquine 200mg
Zinc sulphate 200mg
Azithromycin 500mg.
This were the dose uze by the french dr in newyork

sidieladaniel:
u are a dunce, keep believing everything Trump tells u if chroloquine is that effective y deos the US have the highest infection & death rate. u are even outdated sef nobody talks abut chloroquine again in the US even trump, remesidivir is the new drug for clinical trial.

Another puppet are you aware that all the states where people are dying placed a restrictions on the use of chloroquine and Doctors there stand the risk of losing their practice bid they prescribe it ? You are too dull to know these things though so I don't blame you ..you want to compare Remsidivir with a mortality rate of 10 percent to Chloroquine with a mortality rate of 1 percent ? You don't even know how the commercial world of drugs work Soni can't waste my time with a small brained CNN puppet like you .

..... but yet Satanic agents with an agenda and dull people are waiting for a hurry put together RNA vaccine that will not go through proper trial and is expected to kill 15% of it's users ....is this world not mad so?[/quote]

Thank you!
More like a vaccine, (read "antivirus" with an inbuilt virus to kill off parts of a population. Please keep the information coming, for conspiracy theories are fast becoming reality. The other day Representatives nearly hurriedly passed a Bill in ONE day!
Folks please let's do the needful/educate ourselves and survive this plague.

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Are science not worshippers?

Test the herbal medicine for Madagascar. And put your research laboratories to good use please.
We all need to project for subsequent pandemics.
Lord guide us and open our eyes to see and pick the right minded person to lead us.

The truth is just that this crazy government knows exactly what to do to put an end to this whole mess but mind you dey will only swing into action when they are done and satisfied siphoning all the donations they had been made, so u guys should just chill and relax when dey are done you will see results.

Nigga where..

abobote:
you mean is still yet to go through clinical trial, and bought 2 full pack since since two weeks