The Nigeria Center For Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday reechoed that Chloroquine has not been approved as a cure for the coronavirus disease.
The NCDC in a tweet diisclosed this, just as it warned Nigerians against self-medicating with the drug.
The tweet reads, “Please remember that the use of chloroquine and its derivatives for the management of coronavirus disease has NOT been validated and approved. Self-medication can cause harm and lead to death. Do not misuse drugs”.
It would be recallled that there has been controversy over whether or not Chloroquine, an anti-malarial drug can cure the coronavirus disease especially after US President Donald Trump declared on March 19 that it had been approved to treat the new virus.
Meanwhiile, Trump’s announcement followed encouraging research into chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine both in France and China, however many in the wider scientific community cautioned that more work is needed to prove they really work for COVID-19.
