Prof Iwu, who serves as the CEO of Bioresources Institute of Nigeria, made this known when he led his team of researchers to brief the Minister of Science and Technology, Mr Ogbonnaya Onu and his Health counterpart, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, in Abuja.

In his statement, he said the institute had 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.

It is instructive to note that Nigeria recorded its first case of coronavirus last Friday when an Italian was tested to have been positive and many people who had contact with the index case had been quarantined.