Sri Lanka's Chief Epidemiologist Dr Sudath Samaraweera said that the health authorities cannot accept responsibility for a large number of people taking medicine not approved by them in Kegalle yesterday.

Samaraweera was responding to the tens of thousands of people who queued up to get free samples of a concoction produced by a Shaman named Dhammika Bandara which claims to be able to both cure and provide immunity to the Covid 19 virus.
 
Speaking to reporters he said that the Health Ministry does not have the ability to intervene into the distribution of the medicine, a Syrup, as it is an indigenous medicine and there are separate regulations for that type of potion.

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