Are Vegans immune to COVID-19 ? There is no proof at the moment, says prominent health expert and President of the Public Health Foundation of India, Professor K Srinath Reddy.
Even Vegetarians have been affected because this is a virus which travels through droplet infection and enters the body, he said.
However, people who are taking a lot of fruits and vegetables as part of their natural diet have better innate immunity, and they may be able to fight the infection much better, said Reddy, who formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
It is always better for Vegetarians or non-Vegetarians to have a lot of fresh fruit and vegetable to the extent we can to boost our innate immunity to