Madagascar reports its first Covid-19 death amidst COVID Organic
Madagascar on Sunday announced the first death of a patient suffering from the novel coronavirus, nearly two months after it was first detected in the country.
This latest development occurred a day President of Guinue Bissau was received in audience in Nigeria’s capital Abuja where he presented the Madagasy COVID Organic as African Union sample to President Muhammadu Buhari and about the same time the Madagascar leader claimed World Health Organization (WHO) offered him $20 million to poison the remedy, which, according to The DEFENDER report, respondents described as Western propaganda and allied forces games and warned Nigeria and Africa against.
The 57-year-old hospital worker died on Saturday and had underlying diabetes and high blood pressure before he was infected, an official from the anti-coronavirus task team said.
“It is with great sadness that we have to share with all our compatriots, that there is an individual, aged 57, who died from Covid-19,” professor Hanta Vololontiana said on public television.
He was a car park attendant at a hospital in the eastern city of Toamasina.
The Indian Ocean island which has reported 304 cases has hit the headlines over a home-grown herbal concoction that President Andry Rajoelina claims can cure people infected with the virus.
Several African countries have ordered or expressed interest in the purported remedy, which is known as Covid-Organics.
The tonic drink is derived from artemisia — a plant with proven efficacy in malaria treatment — and other indigenous herbs.
But the World Health Organization has warned against “adopting a product that has not been taken through tests to see its efficacy”.
(AFP/The DEFENDER)
