Madagascar shipping more anti-Covid19 potion to west Africa and elsewhere

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Source: https://www.trtworld.com/africa/madagascar-shipping-more-anti-covid19-potion-to-west-africa-35972

Madagascar shipping more anti-Covid19 potion to west Africa
12 hours ago

Baptised Covid-Organics, is a drink made with the artemisia plant and other indigenous herbs among other ingredients.

Madagascar on Saturday delivered to Guinea-Bissau a shipment of a potion that President Andry Rajoelina has touted as an elixir against the novel coronavirus and hopes to distribute across West Africa and beyond.

Baptised Covid-Organics, is a drink made with the artemisia plant and other indigenous herbs among other ingredients.

This, despite there being no proof of it actually working.

Guinea-Bissau's self-proclaimed President Umaro Sissoco Embalo was at the airport to oversee reception of the cargo donated by Madagascar, AFP correspondents said.

After Equatorial Guinea on Thursday, Guinea-Bissau is the second country to take delivery of the potion that Madagascar claims cures Covid-19 patients within 10 days.

The World Health Organization along with doctors in Madagascar are speaking out against calling the potion a cure...

 

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Coronavirus: Tanzanian president promises to import Madagascar's 'cure':
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52519853

 

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Source: https://africa.cgtn.com/2020/05/08/...rbal-drink-grows-despite-concerns-from-w-h-o/


Demand for Madagascar’s COVID-19 herbal drink grows despite concerns from W.H.O.
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9 hours ago

Madagascar is putting its self-proclaimed, plant-based “cure” for COVID-19 on sale and several countries in Africa have already put in orders for purchase, despite warnings from the World Health Organisation that its efficacy is unproven.

Last month President Andry Rajoelina launched the remedy at a news conference, drinking from a sleekly-branded bottle filled with an amber liquid which he said had already cured two people.

On Friday, a Tanzanian delegation arrived in Madagascar to collect their consignment.

The tonic, based on the plant Artemisia annua which has anti-malarial properties, has not undergone any internationally recognised scientific testing. While Rajoelina extolled its virtues, the WHO cautioned it needs to be tested for efficacy and side effects.

Madagascar has been giving away thousands of bottles of “COVID-19 Organics”, developed by the state-run Malagasy Institute of Applied Research.

Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, and Guinea Bissau have all already received thousands of doses of COVID-19 Organics free of charge...