Coronavirus: Government advises homeopathy, Unani to prevent fatal disease

On January 29, the ministry of AYUSH issued an advisory for the prevention of infection from the fatal disease, coronavirus, using homoeopathy, and “symptomatic management” using Unani medicines. The novel coronavirus strain has no known cure or preventive vaccine yet, according to health experts around the world. It has so far killed over a hundred people and spread to 15 countries. Ministry of AYUSH has come under repeated criticism for propounding pseudoscientific medicine as alternative medicine.