Sri Lanka’s health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.Pavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.She had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.Sri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.Ms Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.The health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.Doctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.Ms […]
Sri Lanka Minister who promoted ‘Covid syrup’ tests positive
