{"id":206347,"date":"2020-04-01T20:04:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206347"},"modified":"2020-04-01T20:04:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:04:27","slug":"covid-19-eu-agency-gives-conditions-for-use-of-chloroquine-in-coronavirus-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206347","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: EU Agency gives conditions for use of chloroquine in coronavirus treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The European Medicine Agency (EMA) on Wednesday, warned that anti-malaria drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, should only be used to treat COVID-19 in clinical trials or in case of \u201cnational emergency\u201d.<br \/>\nCountries around the world are expanding access to the two drugs, which are used to treat malaria, but also have anti-viral characteristics.<br \/>\nBut the EMA cautioned that the drugs should not be used to treat COVID-19 cases, unless it is absolutely necessary.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is very important that patients and healthcare professionals only use chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for their authorised uses or as part of clinical trials or national emergency-use programmes for the treatment of COVID-19,\u201d a statement read.<br \/>\nBoth medicines have a number of potentially serious side effects, especially when taken in high doses or administered together with other medications.<br \/>\n\u201cThey must not be used without a prescription and without supervision by a doctor; prescriptions should not be given outside their authorised uses except in the setting of a clinical trial or nationally agreed protocols,\u201d the EME statement added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Medicine Agency (EMA) on Wednesday, warned that anti-malaria drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, should only be used to treat COVID-19 in clinical trials or in case of \u201cnational emergency\u201d. Countries around the world are expanding access to the two drugs, which are used to treat malaria, but also have anti-viral characteristics. But the EMA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,14621,14173,1353],"class_list":["post-206347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-chloroquine","tag-coronavirus","tag-eu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}