Indian Doctors Protest ‘Yoga-beats-COVID’ Guru

Thousands of doctors across India are putting on black armbands and calling for the arrest of a hugely popular guru who has claimed yoga can prevent COVID-19 and that conventional medicine has killed thousands of coronavirus patients.

Baba Ramdev, the creator of a successful traditional medicine empire, said last month the pandemic showed modern pharmaceuticals to be stupid and failed science.

He claimed hundreds of thousands have died because they had conventional medicines.

Ramdev, a keen supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, retracted his comments after an appeal by India’s health minister.

The guru said he had been merely reading out other people’s Whatsapp messages.