The cure for coronavirus pandemic may not be available or ready
until towards the end of 2021, the Federal Government has said.
The government said Nigeria, like the rest of the world, have
turned to home – grown solutions to treat patients who have tested
positive to the virus by trying to abridge the processes of trial
for locally made vaccines.
Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Mr Boss
Mustapha, disclosed this at the daily briefing of the task force on
Tuesday.
Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Government of the
Federation, appealed to Nigeria’s home grown researchers and those
that are involved in finding cure for the virus to be patient and
subject their drugs through the protocol of validation.
He said if the locally made vaccines or drugs are found fit for
human consumption or administration, they would receive the
appropriate certification.
Mustapha said: “Ordinarily, from the little literature I have
read on COVID 19, is that we are not expecting any vaccine to be on
the shelves until towards the end of 2021. That is for industries
that have perfected the processes of manufacturing of this
vaccine.
“We are so much in a hurry to obtain a home grown cure and all
the countries of the world are doing similar things – trying to
abridge even the processes of the trial to shorten the time.
“My encouragement to our people, to our researchers and those
that are involved in the processes of manufacturing drugs,
especially our home-grown cure, they should be patient and they
should run it through a process. That is the only way we can have
it validated.
“My appeal to our home grown researchers and those that are
involved is: let them be patient, let them go through the protocol
of validation so that at the end of it if they drugs or their syrup
or whatever they produce is found fit for human consumption or
administration, they will receive the appropriate
certification.”
The cure for coronavirus pandemic may not be available or ready
until towards the end of 2021, the Federal Government has said.
The government said Nigeria, like the rest of the world, have
turned to home – grown solutions to treat patients who have tested
positive to the virus by trying to abridge the processes of trial
for locally made vaccines.
Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Mr Boss
Mustapha, disclosed this at the daily briefing of the task force on
Tuesday.
Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Government of the
Federation, appealed to Nigeria’s home grown researchers and those
that are involved in finding cure for the virus to be patient and
subject their drugs through the protocol of validation.
He said if the locally made vaccines or drugs are found fit for
human consumption or administration, they would receive the
appropriate certification.
Mustapha said: “Ordinarily, from the little literature I have
read on COVID 19, is that we are not expecting any vaccine to be on
the shelves until towards the end of 2021. That is for industries
that have perfected the processes of manufacturing of this
vaccine.
“We are so much in a hurry to obtain a home grown cure and all
the countries of the world are doing similar things – trying to
abridge even the processes of the trial to shorten the time.
“My encouragement to our people, to our researchers and those
that are involved in the processes of manufacturing drugs,
especially our home-grown cure, they should be patient and they
should run it through a process. That is the only way we can have
it validated.
“My appeal to our home grown researchers and those that are
involved is: let them be patient, let them go through the protocol
of validation so that at the end of it if they drugs or their syrup
or whatever they produce is found fit for human consumption or
administration, they will receive the appropriate
certification.”