Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 25 (ANI): Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu on Saturday initiated Phase I clinical trials to use plasma therapy for COVID-19 patients at city-based BMC Victoria Hospital.
New Delhi [India], April 24 (ANI): There are certain studies which shows that a number of people recovering from COVID-19 do not have sufficient amount of antibodies in their blood, which is required for the plasma therapy to treat virus-infected person, said Randeep Guleria, Director of All
New Delhi [India], April 24 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Dr SK Sarin, Director, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences on Friday requested the recovered coronavirus patients to donate blood plasma so that the critical patients can be saved from organ failure.
Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 24 (ANI): Two COVID-19 patients were discharged from a quarantine centre here on Thursday due to a mix up in names. However, they were brought back later to the quarantine centre.
New Delhi [India], April 24 (ANI): Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said that the plasma therapy trials on four COVID-19 patients of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) hospital have given encouraging results.
Agartala (Tripura) [India], April 24 (ANI): Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Thursday said that Tripura has become coronavirus-free, after the second COVID-19 patient in the state was found negative after consecutive tests.
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], April 23 (ANI): At a time when doctors and other health care staff at hospitals are prone to coronavirus infection, humanoid robots at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has mitigated the risk by performing contactless monitoring of the admitted COVID
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 23 (ANI): The West Bengal government on Thursday directed private hospitals, which have been requisitioned by the government for COVID-19 treatment, to provide free treatment to coronavirus patients.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 23 (ANI): Opening the lockdown on May 04 will pose a big challenge as close to 70% coronavirus cases in India are asymptomatic, said West Bengal Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha on Thursday, adding that the doctors are worried as to how to identify such Covid
Vadodara (Gujarat) [India], April 23 (ANI): 45 persons who had tested positive for COVID-19 were discharged today from a quarantine centre here after recovering.
New Delhi [India], April 23 (ANI): AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria on Thursday informed that the use of convalescent plasma therapy to treat COVID-19 patient has started at various centres in the country.