The Corona Experts Advisory Group (CEAG) of the Punjab government on Tuesday advised against the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine drugs for treatment of COVID-19 patients after a US man died following a dose of the drug.
The panel constituted by the provincial government for clinical management of COVID-19 patients said in a statement that there is no evidence showing positive results of the use of both these drugs to cure the people affected by the disease.
Earlier, a Phoenix-area man died and his wife was in critical condition after the couple took chloroquine phosphate, an additive used to clean fish tanks that is also found in an anti-malaria medication touted by Donald Trump as a treatment for Covid-19.
Banner Health said on Monday the couple in their 60s got sick within half an hour of ingesting the additive. The man could not be resuscitated at hospital but the woman was able to throw up much of the chemical. “Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure,” the woman told NBC.
She said her advice would be: “Don’t take anything. Don’t believe anything. Don’t believe anything that the president says and his people … call your doctor.”
