Nigeria is set to receive the first batch of COVID Organics (COV) from the Republic of Madagascar.
COVID Organics is for prevention and cure of Coronavirus and has been certified by the Madagascan health ministry to be potent.
Nigeria’s consignment has been sent to Equatorial Guinea from where it will be airlifted to Abuja, the federal capital.
The drugs which would be shipped to other African countries, for ease of transportation, these countries were divided into zones leading to the freighting of Nigeria’s consignments to Equatorial Guinea.
However, the Federal Government has been told to allow allow the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to subject the drug to further analysis.
With many others pushing for clinical trial of Covid Organics before being used in the country.
The Federal Government was yet to take a position as of weekend because the AU has mandated its Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to review the scientific data gathered so far on the safety and efficacy of the COVID Organics.
More so, the World Health Organisation (WHO) last week insisted that the efficacy of the drug was unproven.
Madagascar is yet to record any deaths since COVId-19 was detected in the country, and has beenn said to have the highest recovery rate in the country.
