Vaccine For Treatment Of Coronavirus Ready Soon – Iwu

Former chairman of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC), professor Maurice Iwu has assured Nigerians that the vaccine for the therapy of novel coronavirus would quickly be prepared.

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The professor of Pharmacology who at present heads the Imo State Taskforce on COVID-19 made this recognized in Owerri on Wednesday.

His phrases:

“The work on the drug we’re growing remains to be happening. We’re inspired by the end result we’re getting. We’re getting very optimistic indicators.”

“fortunately the drug is a protected one. It’s a drug already in use. We’re repurposing it for this explicit function. So after we completed finding out and testing we’re doing, I believe the drug will come up in line very very quickly. ”

“if the pandemic escalates, the NAFDAC will know what to do, like they did within the USA to quick monitor the usage of chloroquine.

“If we’ve got a necessity NAFDAC will know what to do. Proper now the product is in human use, what we’re doing is to repurpose it for this explicit occasion, ” he said.