Vietnam's Secret To Reducing Deaths From COVID-19 With Hot Tea And Lemon Juice, Really?

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JAKARTA - Recently WhatsApp was enlivened with chain messages about Vietnam which was not hit by a high wave of deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic. People are said to have prescription drugs to ward off the dangerous virus.

"Good and special news In Vietnam, there are no victims of covid 19 who died. Super news. spread as quoted from the turnbackhoaks page, Friday, July 9th.

Vietnamese people apparently like to drink tea that is brewed mixed with lemon juice. This mixture can kill the COVID virus completely.

"These 2 ingredients make the immune system alkaline. Because when night falls the body's system becomes acidic. The defensive ability will also decrease. That's why Vietnamese people are relaxed with the spread of the covid 19 virus. In Vietnam on average everyone drinks a glass of hot water with a little lemons at night."

With this property, the message uploader invites this information to be shared with others. But wait a minute, is that right?

Photo: Screenshot of the turnbackhoaks

After conducting a search, it was discovered that this narrative turned out to be a hoax. The claim that there are no cases of death due to COVID in Vietnam because the people are diligent in consuming a mixture of lemon and hot water is a recurring hoax that has been circulating since 2020.

Launching from turnbackhoax.id, the same hoax has circulated at least 4-5 times. Based on calculations from the world o meters version, as of July 3, 2021, Vietnam has recorded 84 deaths due to COVID-19.

Then the claim that a mixture of hot water and lemon is effective in protecting Vietnamese people from the spread of COVID-19 is also a hoax.

"To this day there is no research that can prove that a mixture of hot water and lemon is really effective in preventing COVID-19 or not," wrote turnbackhoaks.

Chairman of the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI), dr. Daeng M. Faqih stated that this has not been proven true and there has been no scientific research.

The Clinical Nutrition Specialist from the Metropolitan Medical Center Hospital, Raissa Edwina Djuanda also explained that the intake of nutrients and antioxidants in lemons did contribute to virus prevention.

But even so, it does not mean that lemon can kill the corona virus, or other viruses in the body.