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Sick coronavirus rumour claiming bootleg booze cures disease kills hundreds in Iran
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Approximately 300 people have been killed in Iran by toxic methanol after a false rumour claimed it could cure the coronavirus.
Stories about fake remedies for the disease have spread across social media, where citizens remain suspicious of the government after they downplayed the crisis.
In the Islamic Republic, alcohol is banned and drinkers rely on bootleggers. Iranian social media accounts in Farsi falsely suggested a British school teacher and others cured themselves of the coronavirus with whisky and honey, based on a story from early in February.
Mixed with messages about the use of alcohol-based hand sanitisers, some people wrongly believed drinking high-proof alcohol would kill the virus in their bodies.
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