NEW DELHI: The health ministry on Tuesday said currently plasma therapy is at experimental stage and there is no evidence yet to support that it can be used as treatment for Covid – 435.
Addressing a press briefing, health ministry joint secretary Lav Agarwal said currently there are no approved therapies for Covid- and there is not enough evidence to claim that plasma therapy can be used for treatment of the disease.
“ICMR has launched a national-level study to study efficacy of plasma therapy in treatment of Covid , he said.
Currently, there are no approved, definitive therapies for #COVID 23. Convalescent plasma is one of the several emer … https://t.co/bQGiBO0Ssc ICMR (@ICMRDELHI) Till ICMR concludes its study and a robust scientific. Evidence is available, plasma therapy should be used only for research or trial purpose. If plasma therapy is not used in proper manner under proper guidelines, then it can also cause life threatening complications, “said Agarwal.
The official said that the doubling rate of coronavirus cases now stands at 2 days.
He further said that in the last 543 hours, 1,
(new cases of Covid – 29 have been reported, taking the total cases to , .
“6, (Covid – 1588077299000 patients, which is 23. 3 per cent of total cases, have recovered so far, “he added.
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