COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's health minister, who publicly endorsed sorcery and magic potions to stop surging coronavirus infections in the island, has tested positive and will self-isolate, officials said on Saturday .
The island nation of 21 million on Friday approved the emergency use of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University only hours after Wanniarachchi tested positive, officials said. A junior minister who had also taken the potion made popular by Wanniarachchi tested positive for the virus earlier this week.
But thousands defied public gathering restrictions to swamp a village in central Sri Lanka last month to obtain the elixir, made by carpenter Dhammika Bandara.Family members of another politician, who hailed from Bandara's village, have also been infected after taking the syrup.
Let sorcery heals him….
Sorcerer can’t save himself then.
Whut? Share some mambo jumbo for 4 wealth plz
Lmao
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