{"id":23042,"date":"2020-03-25T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23042"},"modified":"2020-03-25T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:25:00","slug":"ncdc-speaks-on-using-chloroquine-to-treat-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-speaks-on-using-chloroquine-to-treat-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"NCDC Speaks On Using Chloroquine To Treat Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has advised Nigerians not to use chloroquine and its derivatives to treat the coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/p>\n<p>The health agency made this known in a post on its official twitter handle, @NCDCgov, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>NCDC stated that the use of chloroquine to treat the virus is yet to be approved or validated, warning Nigerians against self-medication.<\/p>\n<p>It wrote: \u201cPlease remember that the use of chloroquine and its derivatives for the management of coronavirus disease has NOT been validated and approved<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelf-medication can cause harm and lead to death. Do not misuse drugs\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19Nigeria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19Nigeria<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please remember that the use of chloroquine and its derivatives for the management of coronavirus disease has NOT been validated and approved<\/p>\n<p>Self-medication can cause harm and lead to death. Do not misuse drugs<\/p>\n<p>More details via <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zQrpNeOfet\">https:\/\/t.co\/zQrpNeOfet<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5NxJBl0Iou\">pic.twitter.com\/5NxJBl0Iou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCDC (@NCDCgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCDCgov\/status\/1242791571227127809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has advised Nigerians not to use chloroquine and its derivatives to treat the coronavirus (COVID-19). The health agency made this known in a post on its official twitter handle, @NCDCgov, on Wednesday. NCDC stated that the use of chloroquine to treat the virus is yet to be approved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":23045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,1438],"tags":[1425],"class_list":["post-23042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","tag-ncdc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NCDC Speaks On Using Chloroquine To Treat Coronavirus - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has advised Nigerians not to use chloroquine and its derivatives to treat the coronavirus (COVID-19).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-speaks-on-using-chloroquine-to-treat-coronavirus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NCDC Speaks On Using Chloroquine To Treat Coronavirus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has advised Nigerians not to use chloroquine and its derivatives to treat the coronavirus (COVID-19).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-speaks-on-using-chloroquine-to-treat-coronavirus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-25T18:25:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-microbes-780x405-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"780\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-speaks-on-using-chloroquine-to-treat-coronavirus#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-speaks-on-using-chloroquine-to-treat-coronavirus\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"NCDC Speaks On Using Chloroquine To Treat Coronavirus\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-25T18:25:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-speaks-on-using-chloroquine-to-treat-coronavirus\"},\"wordCount\":110,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-speaks-on-using-chloroquine-to-treat-coronavirus#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-microbes-780x405-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"NCDC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-speaks-on-using-chloroquine-to-treat-coronavirus#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-speaks-on-using-chloroquine-to-treat-coronavirus\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-speaks-on-using-chloroquine-to-treat-coronavirus\",\"name\":\"NCDC Speaks On Using Chloroquine To Treat Coronavirus - 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