MADAGASCAR’S AGBO CURES 55 MORE COVID-19 PATIENTS
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| Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina, other top government officials taking a drink of the CVO herbal tea at its launch on April 20, 2020. |
As the controversy over claims
by Malagasy authorities that its local, CVO herbal tea has the potency to cure
covid-19 positive continues, at least 55 COVID-19 patients have recovered after
being treated with the country’s herbal remedy for the disease.
The number of COVID-19
patients said to have been “cured” with the drug — which is bottled as herbal
tea — rose after three recoveries were announced on Saturday.
According to L’Express de Madagascar, the patients were
among those that were administered the drug known as COVID-Organics, or CVO
herbal tea, since it was launched in April.
The report did not however
state if there was any supplementary treatment, but reported that treatment of
(COVID-19) patients has been based on the drug since it was introduced.
“The same day that the CVO
herbal tea was launched, two coronavirus patients who consumed it came out
cured,” L’Express de Madagascar reported.
“Until yesterday, 55
people have been declared cured since the adoption of CVO herbal tea treatment
twenty days ago,” the reported added.
It further said that to
aid the fight against COVID-19, the drug is being distributed freely in parts
of the country.
Here are some facts the CVO
herbal tea:
Launched
on April 20, the COVID-Organics was developed by the Malagasy Institute of
Applied Research (IMRA). Its main ingredient is said to be sweet wormwood
(Artemisia annua), a plant of Asian origin from where the antimalarial drug,
artemisinin, came. Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina said at the
launch that the effectiveness of the drug has been proved.
According to him, “All
trials and tests have been conducted and its effectiveness in reducing the
elimination of symptoms has been proven for the treatment of patients
with COVID-19 in Madagascar.”
COVID-Organics is now
being distributed to some African countries, and Nigeria hinted it
might ask for the drug as well. But the herbal remedy has remained a
subject of controversy. Madagascar’s national medical academy had cast
doubt on its efficacy while the World Health Organisation (WHO)
continues to warn against the use of any unapproved drug.
Of the 193 COVID-19 cases
so far recorded in Madagascar, 101 have recovered while none has
died.
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