With no antiviral medicines available in the world to treat novel COVID-19, health experts from Kerala are hopeful that 'Convalescent Plasma Transfusion' or CP Therapy might work on SARS-COVID 2 patients who are in a critical condition. A team of senior health professionals from Kerala has already submitted their line of treatment protocol study using CP Therapy to the Kerala State Health Ministry and it was forwarded to the ICMR in March last week for their approval.

Kerala officials claimed that the ICMR has given their permission to conduct the test on April 8. However, senior scientists at ICMR told mid-day that no such permission has been granted yet. Things are still under process.