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Doctors question plan to hand out Patanjali's Coronil to Covid-19 patients

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Mumbai: Indian doctors on Wednesday decried the free distribution of an unproven remedy to COVID-19 patients by the state of Haryana as the maker of the herbal medicine faced a backlash over comments in which he said modern medicine had caused deaths.The northern state, which is ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janta Party, said this week it would hand out Coronil to COVID-19 patients.

The ayurvedic medicine was launched by yoga guru Baba Ramdev's company Patanjali Ayurved last year to much fanfare as a COVID-19 cure.The government later said the consumer goods company co-founded by Ramdev could not market the drug as a cure, and it needed to market it as an immunity booster.There is no scientific basis to Coronil's use in.

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