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 as a result of the latest research on case
management.
“We have removed the use of antivirals from our treatment
guidelines.
“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withdrawn them from the guidelines of management.”
Last month, the Health Minister, Osagie Ehanire, revealed
that the four drugs that will be monitored in the COVID-19 solidarity trial are
Remdesivir; Chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine; Lopinavir, and Ritonavir.
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