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New Delhi, India – An Indian pharmacist died and his boss was hospitalized after the couple drank a chemical mixture they had developed in an effort to treat the coronavirus, police said Saturday.
The men worked for a herbal medicine company and were testing their treatment. – a mixture of nitric oxide and sodium nitrate – in a house in the south of Chennai city.
K Sivanesan, 47, was killed instantly, local police chief Ashok Kumar said.
His colleague Rajkumar was recovering from the poisoning.
Kumar said Sivanesan bought the chemicals from a local market and developed the formula after doing research on the internet.
There are no drugs or vaccines approved to treat COVID-19, triggering a global race for a new drug for the disease that has killed nearly 300,000 people.
Nearly 60,000 cases have been detected in India, which has imposed a drastic closure across the country in an effort to stop the spread of the disease.
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