Joshua heals US couple of COVID-19

&NewLine;<p>Nigerian charismatic pastor T&period;B&period;Joshua has claimed that one of his pastors was able to heal a couple in the US&comma; who were infected with Coronavirus and were hospitalized for COVID-19&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>T&period;B&period;Joshua&comma; who is a common household name in Nigeria&comma; is the founder of The Synagogue&comma; Church of All Nations &lpar;SCOAN&rpar;&comma; a Christian megachurch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Prophet T&period;B&period;Joshua took to his Twitter on Sunday where he announced that Pastor Chris had prayed for a couple in the US&comma; who had tested positive for COVID-19 and after receiving prayer were healed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Mrs Bukola connected from the USA as she laid in the hospital bed with COVID-19&period; Her husband&comma; Mr Oluwaseun&comma; also tested positive&period; Prophet Chris prayed for them in the Name above all names&period; After the prayer&comma; Mr Oluwaseun and Mrs Bukola proclaimed their healing&excl;&comma;&&num;8221&semi; T&period;B&period;Joshua tweeted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>T&period;B&period;Joshua&comma; who is also a popular televangelist and runs the Emmanuel TV&comma; last month had claimed that a COVID-19 positive patient was healed after watching his church services&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In a video&comma; T&period;B&period;Joshua claimed that&comma; a gynecologist and obstetrician from Cameroon&comma; who was in an isolation ward when he called in via video to receive prayer on Emmanuel TV &&num;8220&semi;vomited out&&num;8221&semi; the disease&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The video is also posted on YouTube where it has been shared by thousands&period; The faith-based healer also is now urging the government to organize means for patients in isolation to connect to Emmanuel TV&comma; so that he can pray for their healing during his special prayer COVID-19 prayer segment &&num;8211&semi; Interactive Prayer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Earlier this month&comma; the World Health Organization too was forced to issue a &&num;8220&semi;carefully worded&&num;8221&semi; statement after an African journliast asked for a reaction from a WHO panel on their view on the trending video shared by T&period;B&period;Joshua about the Cameroonian medical doctor being &&num;8216&semi;healed&&num;8217&semi; of COVID-19&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We know many religious leaders who would really advise their followers to follow their faith and at the same time use science&period; The two do not contradict&semi; they go together&&num;8230&semi; We will call on all religious leaders to be in this fight and save lives&comma;&&num;8221&semi; WHO Director-General&comma; Dr&period; Tedros Ghebreyesus said&comma; reported The Nation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>With a poor health care system and under-funded hospitals&comma; thousands in many of the impoverished African countries turn to faith-based healers such as T&period;B Joshua&comma; who run megachurches that are visited by thousands&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The popular Nigerian televangelist in March had claimed that by 27 of that month&comma; coronavirus will completely &&num;8220&semi;disappear&&num;8221&semi; to thunderous applause by the congregation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;