Daily Current Affairs 22nd April 2020

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Today’s Important Topic’s For UPSC Preparation 1. HOSPITAL IN STATE GETS NOD FOR PLASMA THERAPHY TRIALS. 2. CBDT STICKS WITH BUDGET’S TAX TARGET. 3. KANDHAMAL TRIBES. 4. DRUG FOR SEPSIS TO BE TESTED FOR COVID-19. 5. PAKISTHAN REMOVES NAMES FROM TERRORISM WATCH LIST.

HOSPITAL IN STSTE GETS NOD FOR PLASMA THERAPHY TRIALS Bringing hope to the battle against COVID-19, the Central Drugs Control Organisation under the Director General of Health Services has approved a research proposal from a hospital in Karnataka to study the use of convalescent plasma therapy in treating COVID-19. The therapy that holds promise in treatment of COVID-19 cases will be tested on at least 10 critical patients in the State in the initial phase. Following the approval granted to HCG Hospitals, trials will begin on critical COVID19 patients who are currently in ICU and on ventilators using plasma from patients who recovered from Victoria Hospital. It will be taken up in collaboration with the State government for the benefit of our patients. The therapy could be used in the category of patients who are battling the disease along with severe comorbidities and respiratory distress. We have planned a Phase I/II, Open Label, parallel arm clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of this therapy in COVID-19 infected patients for free. The approval has been granted under the provisions of the New Drugs and Clinical Trial Rules, 2019. The idea behind this therapy is that immunity can be transferred from a healthy person to a sick patient using convalescent plasma. This therapy uses antibodies from the blood of a recovered COVID-19 patient to treat another critical patient. The recovered patient’s blood develops antibodies to battle against COVID-19. Once the blood of the first patient is infused to the second patient, those antibodies will start fighting against coronavirus in the second person.

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