Politician contracts COVID-19 after claiming 'bathing in mud' is his preventative method
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Indian politician Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria has been diagnosed with COVID-19 despite his "prevention method" to bath in mud.
The member of parliament posted a strange video on his Facebook page a month before diagnosis; where he was seen sitting in a muddy field, blowing into a conch shell.
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Speaking in Hindi, the politician claimed that one gains immunity from "going out, getting wet in the rain, sitting in the dirt, working on the farm, blowing a conch... and eating 'desi' thing."
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Can mud baths provide immunity against Covid-19? One Indian politician seemed to believe so. But now, he has tested positive for the virus pic.twitter.com/pIxDNTHzi1
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