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Ex-INEC boss Maurice Iwu leads Imo task force against coronavirus

Daily Dispatch March 21, 2020

Maurice Iwu, a former INEC chairman and professor of pharmacognosy is leading a task force team set up by the Imo state government to prevent and control the possible spread of the coronavirus in the state. Governor Hope Uzodinma in a broadcast to the people of the state on Friday nightalso

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Coronavirus: NAFDAC Approves Production Of Chloroquine For Clinical Trial

Daily Dispatch March 20, 2020

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 agency, Mojisola Adeyeye, made the announcement on Friday at the NAFDAC headquarters in Lagos. She, however, pointed out that NAFDAC is not approving Chloroquine for the treatment of  COVID-19

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COVID-19: No confirmed case in Oyo—Commissioner for Health

Daily Dispatch March 19, 2020

…says state on high alert, resources deployed …warns residents to practise personal hygiene The Oyo State government, on Thursday, allayed the fears of residents of the state on the Corona Virus pandemic, declaring that there is no confirmed case of the disease in the state yet. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Bashir Bello, who […]

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Breaking: US approves chloroquine to treat coronavirus

Daily Dispatch March 19, 2020

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 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 through the approval […]

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Ekiti’s coronavirus patient likely contracted virus from dead American

Daily Dispatch March 18, 2020

Ekiti State Government Wednesday said the person who tested positive for coronavirus in the state may have contracted the virus while driving an American man who died in a hospital in the state. The 38-year-old Ekiti State indigene man was one of the five confirmed cases announced by Nigeria’s health minister Osagie Ehanire on Wednesday morning. The […]

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Coronavirus: We recommend paracetamol, not ibuprofen – WHO

Daily Dispatch March 17, 2020

People, who suspect they have caught the novel coronavirus, should not take the popular drug ibuprofen without consulting a doctor, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. WHO gave the warning, on Tuesday, pointing to the ongoing research into possible negative effects. WHO’s spokesman, Christian Lindmeier, told a Geneva news conference that there are no recent […]