Madagascar’s herbal medicine coronavirus ‘cure’ free to schoolchildren, the President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina attending a ceremony to launch Covid Organics, the country’s ‘cure’ to the coronavirus, export ready.
Well over 46,000 confirmed infections for the coronavirus and 1,800 deaths, according to the WHO, African countries are the least hit in the global pandemic so far relative to a 1.2 billion population. Yet there are fears of more people getting infected in coming weeks and months due to the limited availability of personal protective equipment, shortage of hospital beds and the lack of a clear-cut curative treatment. And most of the equipment have to be imported from wealthy countries who are also bearing the brunt of the virus – the countries are prone to restricting exports and raising prices.
This aspect has heightened debates in many African countries on how to find local treatments, Madagascar has begun exporting a herbal tonic which authorities have claimed is a cure for the COVID-19 coronavirus to countries across the African continent.
There is currently no scientifically proven cure for the coronavirus, despite countries and corporates across the world investing heavily in research and development. The most optimistic estimates suggest that a vaccine will likely not be found until early next year, and even in that case experts say it would require extensive testing to be proven safe.
However, according to Madagascan authorities, the African island country has already found a cure – a drinkable herbal tonic, which it is now exporting abroad.
Many countries trying to find local treatments, not just from African scientists but to also start to look into the many traditional herbal medicines and plants which have been used for centuries across different cultures on the continent.
Madagascar claims that the drink is able to cure patients of the coronavirus within 10 days, with President Andry Rajoelina claiming that two people have already been cured through the drink, the BBC reported.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the herbal tea's effects had not been tested, and there are no published scientific studies of the drink. In a statement reported by the BBC, the WHO urged caution and did not recommend “self-medication with any medicines … as a prevention or cure for COVID-19.”
The Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has further warned that there are no short-cuts to finding an effective way to fight the coronavirus. Many traditional Zulu healers using the medicinal plant Sutherlandia Frutescens or Cancer bush to treat HIV/AIDS patients during the height of the South African epidemic in the late 1990s it would take a health authorities a full year before the efficacy of the herbs could even be fully tested by scientists.
But Madagascar has begun exporting a herbal tonic which authorities have claimed is a cure for the COVID-19 coronavirus to countries across the African continent. The countries who importing herbal tonic is Tanzania, Congo-Brazzaville, and Guinea-Bissau which is being dubbed as the cure to coronavirus, even though the World Health Organization has remained firm on its stand that there are no proof of any definite cure yet.
The tonic is produced from the artemisia plant, which is one of the sources of an ingredient used in a malaria treatment, reports the BBC.
Well over 46,000 confirmed infections for the coronavirus and 1,800 deaths, according to the WHO, African countries are the least hit in the global pandemic so far relative to a 1.2 billion population. Yet there are fears of more people getting infected in coming weeks and months due to the limited availability of personal protective equipment, shortage of hospital beds and the lack of a clear-cut curative treatment. And most of the equipment have to be imported from wealthy countries who are also bearing the brunt of the virus – the countries are prone to restricting exports and raising prices.
This aspect has heightened debates in many African countries on how to find local treatments, Madagascar has begun exporting a herbal tonic which authorities have claimed is a cure for the COVID-19 coronavirus to countries across the African continent.
There is currently no scientifically proven cure for the coronavirus, despite countries and corporates across the world investing heavily in research and development. The most optimistic estimates suggest that a vaccine will likely not be found until early next year, and even in that case experts say it would require extensive testing to be proven safe.
However, according to Madagascan authorities, the African island country has already found a cure – a drinkable herbal tonic, which it is now exporting abroad.
Madagascar claims that the drink is able to cure patients of the coronavirus within 10 days, with President Andry Rajoelina claiming that two people have already been cured through the drink, the BBC reported.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the herbal tea's effects had not been tested, and there are no published scientific studies of the drink. In a statement reported by the BBC, the WHO urged caution and did not recommend “self-medication with any medicines … as a prevention or cure for COVID-19.”
The Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has further warned that there are no short-cuts to finding an effective way to fight the coronavirus. Many traditional Zulu healers using the medicinal plant Sutherlandia Frutescens or Cancer bush to treat HIV/AIDS patients during the height of the South African epidemic in the late 1990s it would take a health authorities a full year before the efficacy of the herbs could even be fully tested by scientists.
But Madagascar has begun exporting a herbal tonic which authorities have claimed is a cure for the COVID-19 coronavirus to countries across the African continent. The countries who importing herbal tonic is Tanzania, Congo-Brazzaville, and Guinea-Bissau which is being dubbed as the cure to coronavirus, even though the World Health Organization has remained firm on its stand that there are no proof of any definite cure yet.
The tonic is produced from the artemisia plant, which is one of the sources of an ingredient used in a malaria treatment, reports the BBC.
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