Ugandan Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has revealed that very soon Coronavirus that has brought the world to its knees will no longer be a threat as local production of a medicine that kills the virus kicks off next week.
The medicine is a disinfectant that kills the virus instantly.
She delightedly told legislators on Monday during plenary that the sanitizer which will neutralize the globe’s dreaded disease has been discovered by an American innovator who came to Uganda over the weekend.
She indeed met this scientist, Prof. Safraz Njaz to further learn more on how the medicine works.
“I have told Parliament that a spray, which instantly kills the Corona virus, has been discovered & is to be co-produced in Uganda. It goes on the market next week. The American inventor, Prof. Safraz K. Niaz, was here at the weekend & donated the patent, free of charge to Uganda,” Kadaga posted on his Twitter page.
Safaraz is an expert in biopharmaceutical manufacturing and has worked in academia and in industry, and as an entrepreneur.
He authored books in the field of pharmaceutical sciences, biotechnology, consumer healthcare and poetry.
From 1988 to igg6, he worked for Abbott Laboratories as its director of technical affairs, before he established his own consulting business, known as Pharmaceutical Scientist, Inc and later founded Therapeutic Proteins, Inc. to develop biosimilar versions of biopharmaceutical and other monoclonal antibodies.
An advisor to the US Congress and government, Prof Safaraz has teamed up with a Ugandan biochemist, Mathias Magoola, to produce the product at DEI Group, in Luzira, Kadaga said.
“There is some ray of hope as someone from the US is developing a treatment for the Coronavirus and he promised that the treatment will be in Uganda in two weeks,’ Kadaga told the House.
“It will be the first product that instantly kills the Corona virus”.
Kadaga took the scientist to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who sanctioned the production of the sanitizer.
Uganda has not registered any case of Coronavirus after its neighbours Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania confirmed they were hit with the virus.
Rwanda has since registered five cases.