Government health workers hand out Ayurvedic medicine to people who are getting tested for COVID-19 in Gurugram, a city in northern India, in May.
By Priyanka PullaReporting for this story was supported by a journalism grant from the Thakur Family Foundation, which has not exercised any editorial control over the contents of this report. The Indian health ministry has begun recommending traditional remedies to tackle the country’s COVID-19 outbreak, dismaying many Indian doctors and scientists.