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Sri Lanka’s health minister tests positive for coronavirus after promoting magic potions to fight COVID-19
Sri Lanka’s health minister, who publicly endorsed sorcery and magic potions to stop surging coronavirus infections in the island, has tested positive to COVID-19.
Key points:
- Pavithra Wanniarachchi publicly endorsed a magic potion, later revealed to contain honey and nutmeg, as treatment against the virus
- Other politicians who drank the syrup also tested positive
- The potion was approved as a food supplement by Sri Lanka’s Government
She and her close contacts will self-isolate, officials said on Saturday.
Pavithra Wanniarachchi had publicly consumed and endorsed a magic potion, later revealed to contain honey and nutmeg, manufactured by a sorcerer who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.
She also poured a pot of…
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