The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has removed antiviral drugs from its new set of guidelines for the treatment of COVID-19. NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this at a Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19 on Thursday. According to him, the decision to stop the use of antiviral drugs on Coronavirus patients was
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has removed antiviral drugs from its new set of guidelines for the treatment of COVID-19.
NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this at a Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19 on Thursday. According to him, the decision to stop the use of antiviral drugs on Coronavirus patients was as a result of the latest research on case management.“One that was in our guidelines recently was the lopinavir/ritonavir combination, which is a combination of medicines we use for HIV.
“There have been quite a number of studies now that have shown that they don’t really improve the outcome of this illness, so we’ve withdrawn them from the guidelines of management.”
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