Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina is the promoter-in-chief of the substance, marketed as Covid-Organics and sold in the form of a herbal infusion.
A drink made from a bright-green fern-like plant is being promoted in African countries as the go-to cure for Covid-19.
Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo made a point of personally taking delivery of his country’s Covid-Organics order at the airport.has a long history in its native China, where scientists discovered an active ingredient that made the plant a front-line weapon in the fight against malaria. In recent weeks, both the World Health Organization and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have underscored the need for empirical testing of local formulas to demonstrate they are safe and effective as claimed.
“They will be subjected to the same process as all other products before they are put on the market,” said Boss Mustapha, Nigeria’s point man in the fight against coronavirus. “There will be no exceptions.” “If it was a European country that had actually discovered this remedy, would there be so much doubt? I don’t think so,” he told French media.
“Life will change for all Madagascans,” he said, noting that rice fetches $350 a tonne, while artemisia changes hands at nearly 10 times as much at $3,000 a tonne.Its CEO Charles Giblain is also convinced of a lucrative future for the crop.
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