Covid-19 treatment therapies: Monoclonal antibodies and how they work

Covid-19 treatment therapies: Monoclonal antibodies and how they work

The REGEN-COV2 therapy, a combination of monoclonal antibodies imdevimab, and casirivimab. (Representative Image) Roche’s REGEN-CoV2 antibody cocktail treatment is gathering steam in India after it was found to be life-saving for some of the most severely affected Covid-19 patients during clinical trials performed in the UK. Can this new treatment be instrumental in helping Covid-19 … Read more

Hyderabad: More than half of city’s population now have COVID-19 antibodies

Hyderabad: More than half of city’s population now have COVID-19 antibodies

In order to map the seroprevalence of COVID-19 antibodies against the viral infection, as many as 9,000 samples were checked for antibodies and these were collected from across 30 wards of the city. In a recently conducted seroprevalence survey in Hyderabad, it has been found that around 54 per cent of residents living in Hyderabad … Read more

27 per cent Mumbai health workers have COVID-19 antibodies: Survey

27 per cent Mumbai health workers have COVID-19 antibodies: Survey

Mumbai: The second sero-survey of SARS- CoV2 in Mumbai has found that only 27 per cent health workers have developed antibodies despite being in constant contact with COVID-19 patients, the city civic body said on Friday. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), in the first and as well as in the second round of … Read more

Coronavirus in Delhi: Not everyone infected by COVID-19 has antibodies, July sero survey finds

Coronavirus in Delhi: Not everyone infected by COVID-19 has antibodies, July sero survey finds

The second round of sero survey was carried out in Delhi by the Maulana Azad Medical College. Sero survey: Antibodies are not present in all those who recovered from COVID-19! In the sero survey conducted by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), it was found that as many as 97 out of 208 patients … Read more