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On Monday, March 23, Nigeria confirmed its first Covid-19 fatality. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control made the announcement in a tweet. The deceased was a 67-year-old man who had underlying health conditions like diabetes and multiple myeloma and was undergoing chemotherapy. He had just returned from the UK where he underwent a medical procedure. The 1st #COVID19 death in Nigeria has been recorded. The case was a 67 year old male who returned home following medical treatment in UK He had underlying medical conditions- multiple myeloma & diabetes & was undergoing chemotherapy Our thoughts are with his family pic.twitter.com/A7STOjTQeW — NCDC (@NCDCgov) March 23, 2020

On Thursday, March 19, POTUS Trump announced that chloroquine (an anti-malarial) could possibly cure Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, which sent residents of Nigeria's two biggest cities (Lagos and Abuja) into a mad rush for the drug. Hospitals in Lagos and Nigeria already reported a number of cases of chloroquine poisoning as many took huge doses of the drug. The price of chloroquine in Nigeria has skyrocketed since the announcement was made, with prices tripling in some areas. America's Food and Drugs Authority, FDA, has however disclaimed the assertion that chloroquine was a cure for Covid-19, saying the agency was still working to examine all possibilities. "One of the things that we promised the American people as we will collect the data and make the absolute right decisions based upon those data about the safety and efficacy of the treatments," said FDA Commissioner Steven Hahn. "We are working expeditiously and we are workin