5871 new Coronavirus cases reported in Tamil Nadu

In Tamil Nadu, the convalescent plasma therapy has been further expanded as it yields an impressive result against Covid-19.

Meanwhile, the total infection in the state has crossed three lakh fourteen thousand as 5871 people tested positive yesterday. The number of  recoveries  has also surged to over two lakh fifty six thousand.

The convalescent plasma therapy has been initially started on an experimental basis in Chennai, which has proved to be one of the most effective clinical methods to fight against the Covid-19 disease.

In Chennai alone, over 57 people



have undergone the therapy and most of them have completely recovered as said by authorities. The clinical method has been initiated in Madurai also recently where all the seven people who got it have recovered faster. It has encouraged the health officials to start work on launching it in the Government Medical College Hospital at Thanjavur as well.

Meanwhile, the state Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswamy recently made an appeal to all the eligible people who recovered recently from the viral infection to donate their blood plasma to help the existing patients.