{"id":110572,"date":"2021-01-10T17:49:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T00:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110572"},"modified":"2021-01-10T17:49:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T00:49:55","slug":"tanzania-to-use-local-herbs-instead-of-vaccine-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/10\/tanzania-to-use-local-herbs-instead-of-vaccine-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania to use local herbs instead of vaccine against Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Michael Oduor Courtesy\u00a0 aftica news<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Tanzania has signalled that it is not intending to use any Covid-19 vaccine but instead will settle on local herbs for protection against the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to the EastAfrican Gerald Chamii, a spokesman at the Ministry of Health said, There are no plans in place yet of importing vaccine for Covid-19, our health experts and scientists are still researching and undergoing clinical trials for the local herbs for covid-19.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chemii put doubt on the efficacy levels of the current global vaccines claiming the production duration was not efficient enough to warrant a maximum protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes not less than six months to find a vaccine or cure for a certain disease. We have fared on our own since the pandemic spread, I am not sure if it is wise to have a vaccine imported and distributed to the citizens without undertaking clinical testing to approve if it is safe for our people,\u201d added Mr Chami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tanzania is among the first countries in Africa to order for the touted Madagascar Covid herb in the fights against the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artemisia annua 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The substance has proven effectiveness against malaria, but no clinical trials have tested it against COVID-19, either as a cure or as a preventative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little is known in Tanzania on the number of positive cases due to the government’s stun position on the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli had declare the East African country as Covid-free and did not place any curfew or confinement to prevent the spread of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Countries like the United State have warned its citizens from traveling to Tanzania to avoid risks of contracting the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its update, the U.S. cautioned its citizen against traveling to East Africa, assigning Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi Level 4 alert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Michael Oduor Courtesy\u00a0 aftica news Tanzania has signalled that it is not intending to use any Covid-19 vaccine but instead will settle on local herbs for protection against the disease. Speaking to the EastAfrican Gerald Chamii, a spokesman at the Ministry of Health said, There are no plans in place yet of importing vaccine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category--19-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}