A self-acclaimed healer in Ratlam, a city in Madhya Pradesh,
India, who claimed he could heal those infected with COVID-19 by kissing their
hands, has died from the virus.
According to Times of India, the healer’s death came after
he infected at least 20 of his followers who had contact with him.
It was gathered that the spiritualist used to kiss the hands
of his devotees, claiming such would address their problems.
He had also claimed his “kiss-cure” — which he christened
“COVID-19 exorcisms” — could cure suspected suffers of the virus.
This is despite warning by the World Health Organisation
(WHO) that the virus could spread from one person to another through droplets
from the mouth or nose.
The spiritual healer was said to have tested positive for
the disease on June 3, after he began having severe symptoms. He died on June 4.
Following his death, local health authorities commenced
contact-tracing, taking swab samples of about 40 persons in the process.
Ruchika Chouhan, who collected the samples, revealed that
twenty of them — including seven members of the man’s family — had tested
positive for the virus with more reports still being expected.
The development, it is understood, had made local
authorities to commence search for occultists who indulge in similar
“exorcisms”, with 29 of them said to have been rounded up in a quarantine
centre.
It comes weeks after Frankline Ndifor, a 39-year-old
Cameroonian pastor, who claimed he could cure COVID-19 sufferers by laying
hands on them, died from the virus.
India has so far recorded 309,603 cases of the novel disease
with 8,890 deaths, according to worldometers.
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