Covid ‘country drug’ kills 1 in Tamil Nadu; 3 critical

One woman died while her husband and two others were battling for lives after they consumed a ‘country drug’ for Covid-19 near Chennimalai in Erode district on Saturday. Police said an unidentified person had visited the house of 70-year-old Karuppanna Gounder at Perumalmalai area in Karungoundanvalasu village on Saturday morning to test the family members for Covid-19. Superintendent of police V Sasimohan said the person had given them some tablets saying that it was a ‘nattu marundhu’ (country drug) that would help them keep the virus at bay.

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