Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has revealed the drug used to treat COVID-19 patients in Nigeria.
Dr. Ehanire revealed the name of the drug while addressing members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, May 5.
According to him, Remdesivir is the name of the drug being used to treat patients with the virus.
The Minister said the drug which was originally developed as a potential treatment for Ebola, is one of the options which Nigeria has adopted for treating COVID-19 patients.
Remdesivir was tested in 1,063 hospitalized Coronavirus patients around the world and has proven to reduce the time it takes patients to recover by 31%. 11 days on average versus 15 days for those just given usual care.
“We have been using that (Remdesivir); we have tried that in Lagos too. So, we have tried the antiretroviral drug to see what effect it has,” he said
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