Madagascar backtracks on COVID-Organics injection trials

Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina drinks a sample of the 'COVID- Organics' at a launch ceremony in Antananarivo on April 20, 2020. Photo: AFP.

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has changed his earlier stand that his country’s purported COVID-19 remedy will be administered through injections. Rajoelina had said that his country will test an injectable version of the herbal tea, attracting widespread criticism.

Rajoelina’s controversial statement has been clarified by Madagascar’s director of judicial studies department, Michelle Sahondrarimalala. She said that the president had been misunderstood regarding the administration of the purported remedy which Telegraph reports is made of traditional herbs including Artemisia and anti-malaria wormwood.