The minister claimed that his agriculture department has invented a eucalyptus-based necklace that could help prevent the transmission of COVID-19 and that the product will be mass-produced next month.
PETALING JAYA, July 8 — Indonesia’s agriculture minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo has been the target of much criticism after he claimed that the ministry’s new antivirus necklace could “kill” Covid-19.
The necklace is just one of the four eucalyptus products developed by the ministry, which comprise roll-ons, balms and mini inhalers. He also claimed that the necklace gave him the confidence to visit crowded places and that he has used it multiple times already for work visits to inspect agriculture production.
“We used the antivirus label to lift the spirits of our researchers. But there is no antivirus claim there because the National Agency for Drug and Food Control classifies them as herbal products,” said Fadjry as reported by the Jakarta Post. Terawan told Kompas TV that the necklace gives off a placebo effect and can indirectly make a person healthier, just by wearing it.
The unsubstantiated claims about the “antivirus necklace” drew a lot of criticism from health experts in Indonesia, including Eijkman Institute of Molecular Biology deputy director Herawati Sudoyo, who voiced her scepticism about the product.
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