“According to the decision of the clinical committee, last week in Moscow began to test a new method of combating coronavirus. Experts believe that the blood of people who have been infected with coronavirus contains antibodies that help to cope with the infection, which means there is confidence that this can help in the fight against a pandemic, ”Interfax quotes her.
Rakova noted that a “hot line” on blood plasma donation was launched in the capital.
At the same time, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin instructed to prepare a regulatory act establishing payments for donors who won the coronavirus infection, she said.
Earlier, the chief doctor of the 52nd hospital in Moscow, Maryana Lysenko, said that the antibody plasma of people who had been ill with a coronavirus is well suited for treating the disease.
In February, it was reported that doctors in the PRC began to transfuse patients with pneumonia with antibodies.