Tanzania has collected a consignment of herbal medicine from Madagascar, whose president Andry Rajoelina has touted the tonic as a cure for coronavirus.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has dismissed claims about the product and warned against the use of traditional therapies before scientific trials.
“Our governments in their year 2000 declaration, committed through their ministers of health, that they will treat traditional therapies as other medications by taking them through [scientific] trials,” said WHO’s Africa regional director Dr Matshidiso Moeti.
“This decision by the governments needs to be followed.”
