West African medicinal plants and their constituent compounds as treatments for viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19.

So far in the course of the pandemic there has been a worrying trend of an abatement followed by a resurgence, especially in countries that were originally considered to have done very well in managing the pandemic, with the resurgence (termed “second or third or new waves”) being linked to several factors, including the emergence of new variants of the virus, differences in the extent and effectiveness of countries’ lockdown, quarantine and other preventive measures, overwhelming of healthcare capacity for treating the infected, and the fact that there are several aspects of the new infection that not much is known about to date.

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