A former governor of Anambra State, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife has said that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cannot survive African herbal cure.

He also said that the aggressive use of herbal mixture every morning and the steam from boiled herbs every four days as well as the intake of Vitamin C (1000mg) could end the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to him, “among the herbal elements in the steam are usually neem (dogoyaro), lemongrass, ginger, mango leaves, guava leaves, etc. In addition to the above herbs, other herbs used in the reported herbal treatments,”

This came on the heels of a study in the United States that exposure to sunlight can destroy the virus quickly.

In a statement titled, “A call for more aggressive treatment (cure) of coronavirus”, which was made available to Vanguard, Chief Ezeife popularly known as Okwadike, said that available information has shown that people infected by COVID-19 and privately treated at home recovered faster than those taken to isolation centres and placed on orthodox medicine."

"While commending the alertness, commitment, resolve, and the resulting effectiveness with which the government has dealt with the invasion by the coronavirus, he said that a major defect observed was in the treatment of persons attacked by the virus.

According to him, “All fair-minded mature people must, irrespective of political leanings, commend the alertness, commitment, resolve, and the resulting effectiveness, with which people in Government, have dealt with the invasion by the coronavirus."

“The responses of all the governments including African governments were very commendable."

But there is, in one very critical area, a major defect, a lapse and, indeed, a failure. This is in the area of treating persons attacked by the virus.