{"id":12906,"date":"2020-05-12T09:13:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T09:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=12906"},"modified":"2020-05-12T09:13:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T09:13:35","slug":"nigerian-govt-enrolls-lagos-fct-ogun-3-others-for-who-covid-19-clinical-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=12906","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian govt enrolls Lagos, FCT, Ogun, 3 others for WHO COVID-19 clinical trials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, said on Monday the Federal Government had enrolled the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lagos<\/a>, Ogun, Kano, Kaduna, and Sokoto States in the \u201csolidarity trials,\u201d a clinical trial spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO) to help find a cure for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 100 countries have joined the solidarity trial and at least 1,200 patients had been randomized from the first five countries to evaluate the safety and efficacy of full drug and drug combinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also warned COVID-19 patients in isolation and treatment centres throughout the country against attacking doctors and other healthcare workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ehanire, who disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing in Abuja, said the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had conducted over 27, 000 tests so far while about 600 Nigerians in Diaspora had been evacuated and put in isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minister confirmed that the government had reached out to its Madagascan<\/a> counterpart for its herbal drug, \u201cCOVID Organic,\u201d but said the product would be subjected to scientific analysis to ascertain its efficacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, said on Monday the Federal Government had enrolled the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lagos, Ogun, Kano, Kaduna, and Sokoto States in the \u201csolidarity trials,\u201d a clinical trial spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO) to help find a cure for COVID-19. Over 100 countries have joined the solidarity trial and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nNigerian govt enrolls Lagos, FCT, Ogun, 3 others for WHO COVID-19 clinical trials » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=12906\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=12906#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"COVID-19\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Nigerian govt enrolls Lagos, FCT, Ogun, 3 others for WHO COVID-19 clinical trials\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nigerian govt enrolls Lagos, FCT, Ogun, 3 others for WHO COVID-19 clinical trials » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=12906","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=12906#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"COVID-19","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Nigerian govt enrolls Lagos, FCT, Ogun, 3 others for WHO COVID-19 clinical trials"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">COVID-19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=6\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, said on Monday the Federal Government had enrolled the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lagos, Ogun, Kano, Kaduna, and Sokoto States in the \u201csolidarity trials,\u201d a clinical trial spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO) to help find a cure for COVID-19. Over 100 countries have joined the solidarity trial and…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12906"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}