Sri Lanka holy man’s ‘miracle’ coronavirus potion turns sour
A self-styled Sri Lankan holy man’s supposed miracle potion to prevent COVID-19 turned sour Tuesday after a minister who publicly drank it was hospitalised with the virus.
Thousands defied public gathering restrictions to swamp a village in central Sri Lanka last month to get the syrup made by Dhammika Bandara.
State Minister Piyal Nishantha de Silva was among several politicians who consumed the concoction, but parliamentary officials said he had since tested positive for coronavirus and taken to a treatment centre.
Family members of another politician, who hailed from Bandara’s village, had also been infected despite taking the syrup.
Pro-government media gave widespread publicity to Bandara who claimed the formula was revealed to him by Kali, a Hindu goddess of death and destruction of evil.
The only ingredients he acknowledged were honey and nutmeg.
The government has scrambled to distance itself from Bandara, whose preparation was approved as a food supplement by the official indigenous medicine unit.
“Although some parliamentarians took it, the government does not endorse it,” said Keheliya Rambukwella, Minister of Mass Media.
Sri Lanka is in the grip of a coronavirus surge, with the number of cases and deaths going from 3,300 and 13 in early October to 54,419 infections and 273 dead now.
(AFP)
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If anybody bother to read how a virus infect and replicate in the body (which I learnt in my Biology lesson in the school), can understand none of these so called miracle cures sent by the almighty divinity happily living in the haven, is nothing but a load of bullXXXt!
Now there seems to have a stupid pathetic campaign to convince the idiots in Sri Lanka Buddha had been born in Sri Lanka. This is the result of social media without accountability. Before it destroy the country it is time the government bring the laws of accountability for what people propagate. Freedom of expression or personal opinion are not a hiding places for willful dissemination of lies, half truths and misleading the public. It should be the responsibility of the author to verify the facts before going to the media. We have witness what happened in the US few days ago.
The future of our Nation is reliant on this Peniya which was gifted by Goddess Kali to its creator.