On February 19th, the World Health Organisation issued a clarification stating that it had not reviewed or certified the effectiveness of any traditional medicine for the treatment of COVID-19.
This clarification was issued in the wake of the claim made by Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved that its Coronil tablet had received certification from the WHO.
The Wire analyses the ecosystem of pseudoscience that surrounds COVID treatment in India.
M.K. Venu, a Founding Editor at the Wire, delves into the how the private sector could scale up the vaccination drive and how vaccine diplomacy is being played out at a time when COVID cases are going up.
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