Patients who have recovered from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Uganda have increased to 45 after seven more patients were discharged today.
Doctors have said patients being treated for COVID-19 in Uganda are set to be shifted from having common anti-malarial drug chloroquine among their treatment plan to hydroxychloroquine.
She said, patients who are under treatment at Entebbe hospital, are being given chloroquine even as there’s no drug yet approved specifically for COVID-19 treatment by the National Drug Authority (NDA).
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