UK Govt calls for more Indian plasma donors

Hong Kong offers free tests

Tribune News Service

Updated At : 01:09 PM Aug 22, 2020 IST

London, August 21

The UK’s state-funded National Health Service (NHS) on Friday issued an urgent call for people of Indian and South Asian heritage who have recovered from Covid-19 to donate their plasma to help save lives of others infected with the deadly virus.

According to experts, people from a South Asian background are around twice as likely to have high enough antibodies for their donations to be used in life-saving treatment trials, compared to white people. The NHS said this antibody-rich plasma, which could save the lives of patients, was being sought urgently ahead of a feared second wave of the pandemic in the country later in the year. — PTI

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