Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, on Tuesday disclosed that pieces of evidence from reliable researches...
A FEW weeks into solidarity trial of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has suspended the process. It hinged its decision...
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force [PTF] on Covid-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, has said Nigerians are abusing chloroquine,...
Lagos State will begin clinical trial treatment of COVID-19 using chloroquine as approved by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control [NAFDAC] this...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, on Friday, said it has not granted approval for the use of any drug as...
The use of chloroquine for treatment of Coronavirus has been ordered in Bauchi state by Governor Bala Mohammed. This announcement was made by the Governor while...
A Brazilian study investigating whether the anti-malaria drug chloroquine was effective in treating patients with Covid-19 has been halted on safety concerns after a high dose...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Monday alerted Nigerians on the circulation of falsified chloroquine phosphate 250mg tablets. In a...
The Ogun State Government said it had not applied for the chloroquine clinical trial because it had no case that warranted it. Responding to an enquiry...
Weeks after the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control [NAFDAC] approved the use of chloroquine for the clinical trial treatment of the coronavirus...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved the production of Chloroquine for clinical trials in tackling COVID-19. Director-General of the...
A Nigerian man has reportedly been rushed to the hospital unconscious after he reportedly took an overdose of malaria drug Chloroquine over Coronavirus scare. This story...
The US has approved the anti-malarial drug chloroquine for use as a treatment against the new coronavirus, President Donald Trump said Thursday. “We’re going to be...
The Nigeria Medical Association [NMA] has described claims that chloroquine phosphate is a cure for coronavirus, aka COVID-19, as untrue. The NMA said the anti-malaria drug,...
An anti-malarial drug widely used in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, Chloroquine phosphate, has been found to be effective on coronavirus patients, according to China’s...