COVID-19 treatment: Osinbajo meets Nigerian researchers
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has welcomed efforts by a team of Nigerian professors and scientists investigating the effectiveness of, and roles that Ivermectin drug can play in the treatment of COVID-19.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement titled, ‘Osinbajo welcomes COVID-19 research group’s report on likely prevention and treatment drug’.
According to Akande, the team, which has Nigerian scholars at home and abroad as members, has submitted report on the usefulness of the drug to the World Health Organisation which has already appointed a peer review expert from the United Kingdom.