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Voodoo leaders in the Caribbean nation of Haiti announced they have taught their fellow priests (houngans) and priestesses (mambos) how to concoct a secret remedy to treat COVID-19.

The Caribbean nation, which has more than half of its population practicing the religion, currently has over a thousand reported coronavirus cases with over 30 deaths and 20 recoveries.

And being one of the poorest countries in the world with a considerable number of its population not being able to afford healthcare in hospitals, people often turn to traditional remedies and the religion to cure their ailments.

Aside virtually training the Houngans and Mambos on how to prepare and apply the secret COVID-19 remedy, they also announced they have located a thousand temples with sacred chambers used for initiation rituals that can admit and isolate at most 15 patients.

Once considered as sorcery, voodoo practice was banned in 1934 in Haiti’s penal code, and the 1940s saw widespread persecution of voodoo practitioners in what was known as “anti-superstition” campaigns.