The NARD President also raised a concern that many medical doctors across the country may have contacted the covid -19 disease due to the hazards they expose themselves to while attending to patients without adequate protection.

The professor of Pharmacognosy from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), had presented a plant-based patented treatment for COVID-19 to the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu which is now been tested in United States.