A health-care worker takes samples from elderly residents to test for the coronavirus at the San Jose nursing home in Cochabamba, Bolivia last week. A pharmacist holds a bottle containing chlorine dioxide at the Farmacia Boliviana in Cochabamba on Tuesday. (Danilo Balderrama/Reuters)"I heard on the news that they were selling chlorine dioxide at the pharmacy. Dr. Rene Sahonero, an adviser to the health ministry, said the ministry strongly warned against the use of chlorine dioxide for COVID-19. Despite the ministry warning, the country's senate passed a bill last week approving the use of chlorine dioxide to prevent and treat the coronavirus.

Source: CBC News July 23, 2020 11:03 UTC