Apart from being a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Bioresources Institute of Nigeria, on Monday announced that his team had discovered a cure for the deadly coronavirus.
He said this while briefing the Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu and his Health counterpart, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, in Abuja.
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He said the institute identified and patented the possible COVID 19 treatment in 2015 and now needs the Federal Government’s support to translate the compound into a drug for the treatment of the virus.
Over 20 persons who had contact with the disease have been quarantined as Nigeria recorded its first case of coronavirus last Friday.
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