The governor of Nairobi, Kenya was blasted on social media after asserting his plans to include “small bottles of Hennessy” in meals packs being distributed to the town’s poor households amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Governor Mike Sonko introduced the plans throughout a Tuesday media briefing.
“From the analysis which has been performed by World Well being Group (WHO) and numerous well being organizations, it has been revealed that alcohol performs a really main function in killing the coronavirus or any type of virus,” Sonko stated in a clip, tweeted by Citizen TV Kenya.
Commenters had been fast to blast the governor for his irresponsible assertion.
“Is he severe?” one wrote. “I can’t consider it, I nonetheless have to replay that video for the 10th time, did he say Hennessy kills COVID-19 for those who drink?”
Dr. Githinji Gitahi, the worldwide CEO of Amref Well being Africa, condemned Sonko in a tweet.
“Please utterly ignore clowning of a significant world pandemic taking lives & placing excessive stress on households,” he wrote. “Dump this the way in which you’ll dump your used #COVID19 #masks — by no means to be recovered! @MOH_Kenya wants to condemn this as this isn’t an abnormal citizen!”
The World Well being Group has stated that ingesting alcohol doesn’t shield towards the coronavirus — and that frequent or extreme alcohol use may even improve the chance of well being issues.
When it comes to hand hygiene, the CDC recommends alcohol-based sanitizers with larger than 60 % ethanol or 70 % isopropanol in healthcare settings.
However “The cognac Gov. Sonko has referenced solely has 40% vol. alcohol,” BBC Africa reporter Wanjiru Muriuki tweeted. “So even for those who had been to use it as a hand sanitizer, it could not be efficient.”
Sonko has beforehand been accused of drug trafficking and cash laundering, which he denies, in accordance to the BBC.
Jail authorities additionally declare that he escaped from a most facility 20 years in the past.
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