The president of Turkmenistan, Gurbangoli Berdymukhammedov, is known for strange decisions such as placing a huge and gilded statue of his beloved dog in the capital Ashgabat, performing patriotic rap songs accompanied by his son and a total obsession with racehorses. But now the ruler has come out with a statement that puts him at the heart of the global corona crisis.
Berdymukhammedov claimed, in an interview with the state television network, that bald licorice root, or licorice, can cure corona disease and even a small amount of it is enough to prevent the disease from spreading.
The president, a pharmacist by training, said during the interview: “Scientists from all over the world are looking for an effective cure for coronary heart disease, conducting various studies and one of them should be around the virtues of bald licorice root.”
“The bald licorice can prevent the corona from developing. Even a weak concentration of the plant in the water can neutralize all the effects of the corona. Turkmenistan has a sufficient amount of bald licorice root to carry out any necessary research on the subject,” the president said. Plant base.
In March, the married man recommended to the citizens of the country to burn branches of a white shard, a desert shrub with a white bloom, in order to prevent the spread of the corona in the country. Turkmenistan is the only country in the world to claim that the corona virus has never reached its territory and in April it became known that the use of the term “corona” or “plague” was banned by the country’s media.