Nigeria Waits For WHO Clearance To Use Dexamethasone
June 17, 2020
9:03 am
Nigeria is not in a hurry to adopt Britain’s new magic drug Dexamethasone to treat COVID-19 patients, even as death toll hit 455 on Tuesday night.
According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, the agency at the heart of Nigeria’s COVID-19 battle, the country will await some clearance from the World Health Organisation before using the drug.
A team of scientists from Oxford University announced on Tuesday that the £5 drug has been found to be a silver bullet to cure coronavirus.
The drug, which is a steroid, reduces the risk of dying from coronavirus by a third in …
