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With vaccines in short supply, Ugandans scramble for Covid-19 ‘herbal remedy’ Ghazal Abbasi As Africa battles a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the growing popularity of herbal remedies touted as a treatment or cure for the virus is raising concern. In Uganda, which has wrestled with a surge in infections over the last month, the National Drug Authority recently approved a herbal remedy Covidex as a “supportive treatment” for Covid-19 and Ugandans have scrambled to get hold of the new medicine. © AFP via Getty Images GettyImages-1217499399.jpg Like some other herbal formulations promoted as coronavirus treatments in Africa, Covidex has not been evaluated by the World Health Organization (WHO), but such treatments are popular across a continent with a long history of traditional medicine and healers.

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