Health Minister's 'warm water method' to kill coronavirus questioned


PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba's advice to Malaysians to drink warm water to "flush" virus down to the stomach, where digestive acids will kill any virus, has come under question.

The Health Minister appeared on RTM's Bicara Naratif programme on Thursday (March 19) night and claimed that the virus cannot take heat, and that the warm water would also flush virus into the stomach.

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