Mangaluru:  Ullal City Municipal Council member researched a medicine for corona virus from rum and eggs.

For two days, a video of him is making the rounds on social media “Rum is the medicine for COVID virus. Add a teaspoonful of ground pepper in 90ml rum and stir it well with your finger and drink it. Eat two half-fried omelettes to ensure that the coronavirus vanishes,” said Ravichandra Gatty in the 1.04-minute-long video.

He added that he has tried a number of medicines for COVID-19 but claimed that only rum and eggs worked.

“I am not suggesting this as a politician, but as a member of the corona committee,” he added.

“Many people are there in Bengaluru and Madikeri who drink rum but I do not drink. Neither do I eat fish,” said Gatty.

As per an official at the Ullal Municipal Commissioner’s office, councillors have been appointed as members in the ward-level coronavirus task force committees.

When contacted, District Congress Committee (DCC) president and MLC Harish Kumar said that the party would take necessary action against Gatty.

The video is now widely shared, Gatti can be seen misleadingly recommending a particular brand of rum along with eggs as a cure for COVID-19  is in trouble now.