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Sri Lanka’s health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus. Pavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC. /economynext/

Ms Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week. The health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream. /economynext/

GOVT’S COVID CURE-ALL – Shaman Dhammika presents a bottle of his Covid cure to Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene as Indigenous Medicine Minister Sisira Jayakody looks on. /economynext/

File Photo: Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive. AFP

File Photo: 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 “blessed” water into a river in November after a self-styled god-man told her that it would end the pandemic. AFP