The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu has disclosed that 90 percent of COVID-19 patients recover without intervention.
Ihekweazu stated this in response to Governor Seyi Makinde’s claim on what he used to defeat the virus in less than one week.
The NCDC DG said what a COVID-19 patient usually requires is support for the body to recover by itself.
Ihekweazu made this known at the media briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19 on Wednesday, April 8. The NCDC boss was reacting to a question on how the governor of Oyo state, Seyi Makinde, recovered from the virus in less than one week.
He said: “We should remember that 90 per cent of these patients recover without any intervention. So, if you take something and say you recovered and that something is why you recovered, it doesn’t quite add up.” The NCDC boss further explained that very few viruses have a cure. He said COVID-19 patients are given oxygen at the hospital which is not a treatment but administered to keep the patients alive for long enough to recover by themselves. As at Wednesday evening, the NCDC confirmed 22 new cases indicating that 15 of the cases are in Lagos, four in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), two in Bauchi and one in Edo.
In a telephone interview with Fresh FM radio station in Ibadan on Monday, April 6, the Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, disclosed that he fought the deadly virus with carrots, vitamin C and black seed oil, and honey. Governor Makinde made the disclosure a day after he tested negative for the disease.
