A potentially groundbreaking treatment known as "antibody transfusion" has been used on coronavirus patients in the UK for the first time Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales is the first to test out the cutting-edge advancement which uses the blood plasma taken from people who have already recovered from Covid-19.
The person's plasma is then transfused into positive patients to help them fight the infection more quickly, report WalesOnline.
Recovered patients are being invited, if eligible, by Public Health Wales to donate blood to the scheme. Senior professional advisor to the Chief Medical Officer Dr Gill Richardson said: "Convalescent plasma is plasma that is collected from patients who have recovered from disease, in this case