Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has made plans to start COVID-19 clinical trial in partnership with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and other institutions on Monday.
He explained that there are a lot of research going on around the world to help get cure for COVID-19.
He said, "We are setting up our own clinical trials in Lagos in collaboration with other institutions and the NCDC and hopefully by this time next week, we should have started some clinical trials on our patients and on our staff in Lagos State"
“ We have three testing sites in Lagos and we are looking to activate some other sites . The current three are Lagos State Biobank at Yaba Mainland Hospital, Department of Virology in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital and the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research .”