Lagos State Starts COVID-19 Clinical Trial – Commissioner Of Health 1 Love

The Commissioner of Health Lagos State, Prof Akin Abayomi, during a briefing on Monday evening, announced that the State is set to start clinical trials for on COVID-19 in partnership with the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control and other institutions.

He said,
“There are a lot of research going on around the world, so it is possible that at some time in the near future, we will have what we may describe as a definitive cure for COVID-19. Indeed we are setting up our own clinical trials in Lagos in collaboration with other institutions and the NCDC and hopefully by this time next week, we should have started some clinical trials on our patients and on our staff in Lagos State.

“We have three testing sites in Lagos and we are looking to activate some other sites. The current three are Lagos State Biobank at Yaba Mainland Hospital, Department of Virology in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital and the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research.”

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