The lie that alcohol cures coronavirus has spread around the world, has become a lethal cocktail and a serious public health problem in some countries. In this context, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued an alert on Wednesday regarding the consumption of this type of drink in the midst of the health crisis caused by COVID-19 and said it would serve to prevent the disease. The most serious situation has occurred in Iran, where more than 1,000 people were intoxicated after drinking industrial alcohol and nearly 200 died from believing that they would avoid catching. In Iran, since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the consumption of alcohol has been prohibited, but drinks imported from contraband or homemade can be found. Twenty people died in similar circumstances in Turkey, including 17 others in a remote region of Peru, where funeral attendees took adulterated liquor believing that they were thus protected from coronavirus, a falsehood that had also reached their ears.” Fear and misinformation have created the dangerous myth that consuming high-grade alcohol can kill COVID-19, which is not true,” WHO said. He explained that the consumption of any type of alcohol poses a health risk, but that if it is ethanol, particularly if it has been adulterated with methanol, then the health consequence can be very serious and can be killed. Beyond adulterated alcohol, WHO recalled that consumption of this product is associated with a wide range of chronic diseases and mental disorders.
It also compromises the immune system, which is the one called to react to the virus if it enters the body. Therefore, experts believe that people should completely or minimize alcohol intake, particularly in this pandemic period. A third warning related to alcohol recalls that its consumption increases the risk of domestic violence at a time when moods can be easily exacerbated by the lockdown in billions of people in the world, as a measure to slow the transmission of the chorovirus.” Alcohol is a psychoactive substance associated with mental disorders. People at risk or with consumption problems are very vulnerable, especially when they are isolated,” WHO said. The organization is in favor of governments consider limiting peoples’ access to alcohol, especially while quarantine measures last. In this note:
