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In the Dominican Republic five-month-old girl died after her drink turtle blood for the prevention of novel coronavirus infection. This publication reports the Daily Mail.

According to local media, the unusual remedy of one of the families advised the Haitian Voodoo shaman. The parents drank the blood of reptiles themselves and gave their children — seven-year and five-month-old daughters, thereby killing the baby.

Soon the Dominicans felt bad and called the doctor. By the time they were taken to the hospital, the baby died. All others are in critical, but stable condition.

In August 2012, four children from the same family were killed after treatment with Voodoo shaman claiming to suffer from a mysterious illness.

According to the latest data, for may 28 in the world revealed 5.9 million cases of infection with novel coronavirus infection. From COVID-19 died of 359.8 thousand people, 2.5 million people have recovered. In the Dominican Republic revealed 16 thousand cases of infection, killing 485 people.