An Indian pharmacist died, and his manager was hospitalized after they took a medicinal mixture that they attended in the hope that it would help cure Covid-19 disease, police announced Saturday.
The two men worked at a company specializing in herbal medicine, and tried the presumptive treatment for themselves, a mixture of nitrogen oxide and sodium nitrate, inside a house in the southeastern city of Chennai.
K. died. Sivanisan, 47, is on the spot, according to local police chief Ashok Kumar.
The pharmacist developed his formula after conducting Internet searches, and bought the ingredients from the local market, according to the policeman.
There is no drug or vaccine currently against «Covid-19», which resulted in a global race to find a cure for this disease that has killed more than 274 thousand people.
And counted more than 60 thousand cases of emerging virus Corona in India, which imposes strict isolation measures in an attempt to contain the spread of the epidemic.