Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami, in an exclusive discussion with India TV on Sunday, urged fellow countrymen "to stay alert, stay at home and follow hygiene measures."
Murari Bapu said, 'The text which I keep in the center, I speak my words. The physical facilities of today, which are medicines, the vaccine which has to be given, should be taken very seriously along with it and take the name God along with it.
Sadhvi Ritambhara said that spirituality and patience give you the confidence and strength to fight COVID pandemic.
The government on Monday removed convalescent plasma therapy from the country's clinical management guidelines on Covid-19. The move comes as the therapy was found to be ineffective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death.
The government on Monday removed convalescent plasma therapy from the country's clinical management guidelines on Covid-19. The move comes as the therapy was found to be ineffective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death.
Plasma therapy on COVID-19 patients has not been found effective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death and is likely to be dropped from the clinical management guidelines, sources said.
Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Dr. Randeep Guleria on Thursday said that rising air pollution combined with coronavirus infection and lung complications can possibly lead to serious consequences, meaning that patients may need ICU or ventilator assistance, leading to higher mortality.
Presently, the use of off-label convalescent plasma for treating COVID-19 patients in the moderate stage of the illness is allowed under "investigational therapies".
Use of convalescent plasma therapy in coronavirus-infected patients does not help in reducing mortality or progression to severe COVID-19, a multi-centric study funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has found.
Recovery rate of Nepal's COVID-19 infected patients stood at around 56 percent in an early fortnight of August, while towards the end of the month, it has dipped down to 54, increasing worries and panic for health workers and government.
The Delhi government's statement comes after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave emergency authorisation for the use of blood plasma to treat coronavirus patients, saying the benefits of the treatment outweighed any potential risks.
Blood plasma therapy that is being touted as the final resort to treat Covid-19 has not convinced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as it has put the emergency use authorisation for blood plasma to treat the deadly respiratory disease on hold, the media reported.
Kunal Ganna, a 21-year-old city-based businessman who recovered from coronavirus has emerged as a saviour, with his three plasma donations saving the lives of six infected patients, an official said on Sunday.
The therapy involves taking antibodies from the blood of a person who has recovered from COVID-19 and transfusing those into an active coronavirus infected patient to help kickstart the immune system to fight back the infection.
The Goa government on Sunday said that plasma therapy treatment for critical patients of COVID-19 has begun in the state.
For those patients who successfully overcome the virus, social media is inundated with requests that they donate their plasma for Convalescent Plasma Therapy - a treatment considered to be beneficial to patients who have tested positive.
The Punjab government has decided to provide plasma to private hospitals from government's Plasma Bank at a cost of Rs. 20,000 per unit for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Plasma would be available free of cost to the patients undergoing treatment in government hospitals of Punjab
On the initiative of Delhi Police, a 'Plasma Donation Campaign' has been launched at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, on Sunday.
Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan inspected plasma therapy arrangement at ESIC Medical College in Hyderabad.
Rajasthan Health Minister Raghu Sharma on July 16 said the state government has witnessed "100% result" in plasma therapy administered on critical patients of COVID-19, and will now create a database of recovered patients to convince the eligible candidates to donate plasma in the state.
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