Nellore: Scores of individuals gathered at Krishnapatnam village in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district on Friday for distribution of an ayurvedic remedy for the coronavirus.
With preparations corresponding to counters and queue-lines marked on the venue together with guaranteeing bodily distancing, numerous folks had been seen ready impatiently for distribution to start.
This as YSR Congress Party’s Sarvepalli MLA Kakani Govardhan Reddy had earlier introduced that the drugs can be distributed from Friday morning onwards.
The treatment ready by native ayurveda practitioner B. Anandiah has been attracting the folks from the encircling areas over the previous couple of days.
The distribution was, nonetheless, halted after the Lokayukta stepped in following studies that Covid norms had been being violated by the locals.
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There is, nonetheless, no scientific proof to justify the drug is efficient. While some samples have been despatched for testing, to a laboratory in Hyderabad, the outcomes are nonetheless awaited, IANS reported.
The district administration had earlier shaped a committee, consisting of the AYUSH medical doctors, to guage the efficacy of the concoction.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is claimed to have been apprised of the state of affairs, is anticipated to resolve on the matter.
