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Wednesday 05 May 2021 8:09 pm

‘Miracle Covid cure’ sold in church turns out to be commercial bleach

By: Michiel Willems

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A family that sold more than 28,000 bottles of a ‘cure’ for Covid-19 has been arrested after it turned out the substance was in fact a sodium chlorite solution that they mixed with an acidic activator so it became chlorine dioxide, in other words: bleach.

Marketed as a ‘miracle mineral solution’, Mark Grenon and his sons Jonathan, Jordan and Joseph made reportedly more than £700,000 since they started selling the substance in March of last year, when the pandemic started.

They reportedly convinced fellow church-goers the substance could cure illnesses such as Covid-19, diabetes, cancer and malaria.

According to court documents, the family manufactured the solution in shed in their back garden and sold the substance to members of a church called Genesis II Church of Health and Healing.

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