In Indonesia and some countries such as Malaysia, India, worm bleach, anti-parasitic Ivermectin is hunted as a kind of Covid-19 medicinal god.

Ivermectin, the drug is widely used for decades to remove worms for cattle as well as people, which is becoming a trend in Indonesia.

Pharmacies nationwide said the drug sales are booming and it is sold out on e-commerce sites.

One person holding the Ivermectin box in Indonesia.

This drug is popular after some Indonesian high-level politicians have praised its effectiveness and the people are increasingly desperate in the context of hospitals of overloading the country, must refuse to receive the disease.

Indonesia is the largest translation area in Southeast Asia with more than 2.1 million cases and more than 58,000 deaths.

Looking at the existing data, we are quite optimistic that Ivermectin can be effective Covid-19 drugs, Moeldoko said and asserting it has been used effectively in 15 other countries to treat viruses.

Susi Pudjiastuti, former Marine Minister and Fisheries, also praised this medicine.

Pudjiastuti said with 2.5 million followers on Twitter that she neglected with NCOV after 7 days of self-isolation.

Reporters of SCMP can buy a 10,000 Ivermectin board with a price of 250,000 rupiah ($ 17.20) without a doctor's application, although on the proposed box that this is a preset drug.

In addition to Indonesia, the interest in this worm bleach has also increased in other Asian countries such as Malaysia, the Philippines and India.

This happens even if the World Health Organization (WHO) says that it cannot be concluded that it can be used to treat Covid-19 patients or not.

The US Food and Drug Administration said it had received a lot of information about patients who had to be hospitalized after taking IVERMECTIN for horses.

British Oxford University on June 23 announced the research report showed that the Ivermectin bleach could reduce the viral load in the body and the respiratory tract, and shortened the time of symptoms in infected people

Health professionals provide many arguments why Ivermectin is popular in Asia.

Irandi Putra Pratomo, the head of the Respiratory Department at the Indonesian University Hospital in Depok, said the politicians lowered the role of scientific processes when considering the optional drug options available.

Policy makers should apply for assistance from experts, instead of looking for answers on demand, personal experience or unverified information from the Internet, he said.

Pandu Riono, epidemiologist at Indonesia University, said the influential politicians still promote this drug even if medical organizations around the world have recommended caution are very dangerous.

The danger can become more serious, depending on the availability of the drug at the store.

When asked why Ivermectin is popular in Indonesia, Pandu said the people are desperate.

In neighboring Philippines, Ivermectin has been approved by a number of hospitals used for Covid-19 patients.

In Malaysia, while the Ministry of Health said it was still undergoing testing, controversy about using Ivermectin became fierce.

The Alliance has organized a number of public workshops on this issue.

Moy said the pandemic situation became worse in Malaysia and the restrictions of tightening room recently could have urged the group to do so.

Nearly 1/5 in the 32 million Population of Malaysians injected at least one vaccine nose, while about 7% had full vaccination.

M. Murallitharan, Medical Director of Malaysian National Cancer Association, commenting IVERMECTIN is the latest drugs of true groups (accepting arguments based on emotions and beliefs instead of data) backing.

Moy thinks that this drug can be used in some Southeast Asian countries due to the large population and the government cannot provide vaccines for everyone.

In the Philippines, only 2.1 million people are fully vaccinated as of June 20, although the country has set a target for 70 million people this year.

Indonesia, the country has a population of 270 million people, also facing similar conditions, with only 12.7 million full vaccinations.

I think that when the government has difficulty shopping or providing vaccines for people and the virus is spreading loss of control, they agree to use Ivermectin, Moy said.

Even so, she emphasized Malaysia is in a better situation and the health system can still deal with the current viral situation.

Moy added that Malaysian public needs to be better informed about why the health authorities refuse to use Ivermectin, instead of spreading rumors.

Unfortunately, the wrong information is much more attractive than the serious statements that people need to wait for more data, Jeremy Lim, Associate Professor of Public Health School Saw Swee Hock of Singapore National University,

Although he thinks there is no large-scale plot to promote unprecedial drugs to make a profit, false information can spread rapidly.

WHO described that there was a 'fake pandemic' along with Covid-19 and certainly the world needs to spend more efforts to find the 'vaccine' and 'cure' more effectively for this problem.