Madagascar: Rajoelina announces artemisia-based tests on patients

Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina on May 27, 2019 in Antananarivo. CREDITRIJASOLO / AFP

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In Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina spoke on Sunday evening during an interview at the presidential palace, broadcast on national television, on his private channel and that of one of his ministers. For almost 1.5 hours, the Malagasy head of state praised the benefits of Covid-Organics, the remedy developed in Madagascar, supposed to prevent and cure Covid-19, and artemisia, the plant used in this remedy.

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From our correspondent in Antananarivo, 

Andry Rajoelina announced the measures that the Malagasy must continue to follow to combat the spread of Covid-19 in the country which has 151 cases. The state of health emergency was extended by two weeks on Saturday.

At the end of the interview, briefly, the president asked the Madagascans to continue to follow the measures taken a fortnight ago: confinement from 1 p.m., grouping of more than 50 people prohibited, morning lessons for pupils in classes examination, wearing a mandatory mask (under penalty of community service for half a day). Measures that apply to the three regions affected by Covid-19: Analamanga where the capital is located, Atsinanana in the east, and Haute Matsiatra in the center of the country. A distribution of Covid-Organics will take place in all the districts of the big port city of Tamatave (east).

But it is not on these rules, that the Malagasy struggle to follow, that Andry Rajoelina has long extended. A pot of artemisia, a bottle and boxes of Covid-Organics placed on his desk, for more than an hour the president welcomed the development of the Malagasy decoction and asked that "  the critics regarding this remedy cease  . " Clinical trials of injections artemisia based on new patients Covid-19 will be carried out from next week " , he said . A plant which can bring big returns to Madagascar according to him and which he wants to cultivate massively. An Artemisia processing plant will be created within a month,he said .  This plant can cure many diseases. If we don't act quickly, other researchers will overtake us  , ”said the head of state. Continuing its momentum, it also announced the establishment in the country of the largest cancer center in Africa. 

► Read also:  Madagascar: the Academy of Medicine tempers its opinion on Covid-Organics

On the occasion of the celebration of International Press Freedom Day on Sunday, the President also announced the release of all journalists detained. 

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