'Never claimed Coronil cures COVID-19', says Patanjali’s CEO Acharya Balkrishna

Acharya Balkrishna, the chief executive officer of Patanjali that was seen to claim a cure for Covid just last week, on Tuesday claimed that the company had never claimed that its newly-tested medicines would treat coronavirus.

This reeks of a conspiracy, the company’s chief executive told reporters on Tuesday after the company responded to notices from Uttarakhand’s drug regulatory body. At least one FIR has been filed accusing the company of making misleading claims. The Uttarakhand High Court also issued notice to the Centre on a petition over the claims made by the company on Tuesday.

Balkrishna said the company had never claimed to have made a medicine to cure Covid.

“We cited Coronil as ayurvedic medicine for immunity boosting, fever, cough and allergic problems,” Balkrishna said. He insisted that the company had only pointed out that the clinical trials indicated that Covid-19 patients, when given this medicine, got cured.

“Only results of clinical trial based curing of positive patients were claimed by us,” he said.

Balkrishna’s effort to distance himself from the claim and perception is at variance with his Twitter timeline where he had retweeted news reports and congratulatory messages for discovering a medicine that could cure Covid-19. Or the many statements that he and Baba Ramdev had been issuing over the last fortnight.

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