The Minister who made the disclosure when the Presidential Task Force on COVID 19 briefed members of the House of Representatives also, said it was wrong for hospitals to turn back patients as a result of fear of COVID 19.
He said the government was not ruling out the possibility of using local herbs for the treatment of COVID 19, adding that what the government was saying was that those who claim to have found cure should subject it to test by the Nigeria Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development as local herbs can be categorised unto drugs that can cure the virus or those that can reduce the symptoms, adding that the body must be able to build the required antibodies to neutralise the virus.
