AFP) - Madagascar's government has announced it will dispatch troops and doctors to an eastern town after several bodies were found in the streets and where two people died from the novel coronavirus.

Madagascar's cabinet held a special meeting on Sunday to discuss the situation in Toamasina, the country's second largest city.

The Indian Ocean island nation has registered 527 infections and two deaths, both in Toamasina.

Since Thursday, more than 120 new cases were confirmed, and several bodies were found in the city's streets though the cause of death was not clear.

"Doctors must carry out thorough examinations to see if these deaths are caused by another illness (...) or if they are really due to severe acute respiratory problems which is the critical form of COVID-19," Professor Hanta Marie Danielle Vololontiana, spokesperson for the government's virus taskforce, said in a national broadcast on Sunday.

The government will send 150 soldiers to reinforce Toamasina, maintain order and enforce measures against the coronavirus such as mask wearing and social distancing.

The cabinet also fired Toamasina's prefect without providing any explanation.

A team was also ordered to distribute a drink based on artemisia, a plant recognised as a treatment against malaria, which the Malagasy authorities claim cures COVID-19.

The potential benefits of this herbal tea, called Covid-Organics, have not been validated by any scientific study.

The cabinet has also announced an investigation into the death of a doctor in Toamasina. According to local press, the victim was hospitalised after contracting COVID-19 and was found dead hanged in his room on Sunday morning.

© Agence France-Presse

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The WHO DG is from Ethopia, and its for this reason I advocate that he uses wisdom to support a thorough clinical trial of whatever herbal remedy has been put forward for use as a drug from Madagascar rather than hastily dismissing it's potency outrightly. It seems a greater part of the doubting world want to see Madagascar severely hit by Covid 19 so as to laugh at their remedy and mock their herbal tea. But Madagascar and other Africans who sympathize with them should know that no one is saying that their Covid organics has no effect against the virus, but is the therapeutic effect significant, based on a wider scale population use over time and accross all regions of the world? Also, what contraindications can occur while on treatment with Covid organics. When everything is standardized, we can now understand the therapeutic index, therapeutic dose, and lethal dose as well as it's suitability for infants and those with underlying conditions. No one in this age and time needs a drug remedy without full understanding of it's mechanism of action and contraindications. If we have research experts in Africa, then let's validate our therapeutic options for Covid 19, else we'll look like fools to the rest of the world if what we so hyped fails us.

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Is this fake news?