Very hot steam, inhaled from the kettle four times a day, and hot tea, also taken four times a day, can cure COVID-19, according to an Indian man living in Wuhan, China.
A message doing the rounds on Facebook claims that “very hot steam”, inhaled from the kettle four times a day, and “hot tea”, also taken four times a day, can cure Covid-19., The advice supposedly comes from a person “living in Wuhan”, the Chinese city where Covid-19 was discovered. The message claims that residents of Wuhan are no longer visiting the hospital and are killing the virus with heat instead., But this advice is false., According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there is no way to increase your body temperature to kill the coronavirus., “Your normal body temperature remains around 36.5°C to 37°C, regardless of the temperature” of the steam you breath, the WHO says., And tea will not cure Covid-19 either. Caffeine, a substance found in tea, is often used with other compounds to treat migraines and headaches. But it is not used to treat viral infections., According to the WHO, there is currently no cure for Covid-19. “To date, there is no vaccine and no specific antiviral medicine to prevent or treat Covid-19,” it says on its website as at 24 April 2020. – Africa Check, , "A fact-checker has rated your Facebook or Instagram post as “false”. What should you do? First, dont delete!", Click on our guide for the steps you should follow., Publishers guide, Africa Check is a partner in Facebook’s third-party fact-checking programme to help stop the spread of false information on social media., The content we rate as “false” will be downgraded on Facebook and Instagram. This means fewer people will see it., You can also help identify false information on Facebook. This guide explains how., Africa Check is working with the CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus Alliance, a coalition of more than 100 fact-checkers fighting misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic., Learn more about the alliance here., , © Copyright Africa Check 2020. Read our republishing guidelines.\xa0You may reproduce this piece or content from it for the purpose of reporting and/or discussing news and current events. This is subject to: Crediting Africa Check in the byline, keeping all hyperlinks to the sources used and adding this sentence at the end of your publication: “This report was written by Africa Check, a non-partisan fact-checking organisation. View the original piece on their website", with a link back to this page., We depend on voluntary donations to run this site. Please help us to keep public figures accountable by supporting the project., Find out more, For democracy to function, public figures need to be held to account for what they say. The claims they make need to be checked, openly and impartially. Africa Check is an independent, non-partisan organisation which assesses claims made in the public arena using journalistic skills and evidence drawn from the latest online tools, readers, public sources and experts, sorting fact from fiction and publishing the results., , Get a weekly dose of facts, straight to your inbox.
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