Baba Ramdev Claims 'If You Can Hold Your Breath For A Minute, You Don¡¯t Have Coronavirus'

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev claims he knows how one can know for sure if they are COVID-19 positive - if you can hold your breath for a minute, you don't have coronavirus.

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While countries scrap to test their citizens for the virus, Ramdev has made an astonishing and bemusing statement to provide a possible solution.

The yoga guru was speaking to Aaj Tak and made the claim only he knows best about.

"There is a special pranayama for coronavirus. It is called Ujjai. In it you contract your throat, then pump in air with a noise, hold it for a while and then gradually release it," he told the channel.

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According to Ramdev, those who have unrelated health issues such as chronic hypertension, heart problems or diabetes as well as the elderly could test themselves by holding their breath for 30 seconds. The young, he said, could hold their breath for a minute.

For those who are able to pull this feat off, "it means you do not have COVID-19, either symptomatic or asymptomatic" he said.

According to report in India Today, Ramdev also said that if you put mustard oil through your nostril, coronavirus will flow into your stomach and die due to the acids present there.

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He further encouraged people to practice yoga at home to enhance body's immunity, strengthen internal organs and protect themselves from coronavirus.

Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus cases in India has reached 24,506 whereas the number of reported deaths stands at 775, according to Union Health Ministry.