All West African countries are expected to obtain a herbal remedy manufactured in Madagascar that purportedly cures Covid-19, Politics Nigeria reported.
This was disclosed on Sunday by President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina, who also revealed that the 15 members of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, would receive the antidote.
The herbal remedy was developed by Congolese doctor Jerome Munyagi in partnership with the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research and has been branded Covid-Organics.
Covid-Organics contains artemisia, a plant cultivated on the Big Island to fight against malaria.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has dismissed the president's claims that the herbal tonic produced in the country can cure patients of Covid-19.
Despite the WHO's warning that there was no proof of any cure, the president of Tanzania, John Magufuli, is sending a plane to Madagascar to fetch the herbal tonic for use in his country.
Guinea-Bissau has also received a consignment of Covid-Organics.
According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, there are now more than 42,500 confirmed cases of the coronavirus across the continent, with 1,759 deaths and 14,129 recoveries.
- African News Agency (ANA)
