Sri Lankan miracle COVID potion fails; minister who partook hospitalized with virus

Some 15,000 people in the island-nation of Sri Lanka drank a concoction created by a local holy man to protect against the coronavirus. One of those, Women and Child Development Minister Piyal Nishantha de Silva, was later hospitalized, despite having drunk the syrup. His office confirmed he was ill with the virus. The holy man asserted that the Hindu goddess of death and destruction, Kali, provided him with the recipe.