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Doctors have dismissed Donald Trump’s suggestion that disinfectant injections could cure the coronavirus, calling it “astonishing. “
Speaking at a White House briefing, the US president said: “I see the disinfectant flush it out in a minute. And is there a way to do something, by an internal injection or almost a cleanse?interesting.
Experts dismissed the concept with contempt. Robert Reich, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, said: “Trump’s briefings actively endanger public health. Boycott propaganda. Listen to the experts. And please don’t drink disinfectant.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed that “there should be no panic”, because agricultural paints can cure Covid-19. “Just paintings, especially now, in a village,” he said. “There, the tractor will heal everyone. The fields will heal everyone.
The president of Tanzania says that it is not by running on farms but by going to church that we will defeat the coronavirus. He told a congregation that the coronavirus is satanic and cannot be in the framework of Jesus Christ.
Meanwhile, in Turkmenistan, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov says the coronavirus can be defeated simply by breathing in smoke from a burning plant in a desert region called Peganuma harmala.
None of those remedies has won the support of medical experts.
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