NAFDAC-DG, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye
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The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has denied online reports it has approved chloroquine for treatment of coronavirus.
Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Christianah Adeyeye, disclosed this in an interview with Channels TV today.
Adeyeye said the agency only approved the use of chloroquine for clinical trials in the research for a cure for the pandemic.
“NAFDAC is not approving Chloroquine as a product that can be used for coronavirus because there is no submission to us for registration. Therefore the medicine is being approved just for the clinical trials,” she stated.
For this purpose, the agency has given permission to a local drug manufacturing company to produce a batch of the drug, she further disclosed.
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