Covid-19 patient gets Andhra Pradesh’s first antibody cocktail

VIJAYAWADA: For the first time in Andhra Pradesh, doctors administered a monoclonal antibody cocktail injection to a

Covid-19 patient

at Ayush Hospital in the city on Friday. Doctors administered the cocktail injection through the saline lock of the

patient

and within half-an-hour, the patient was discharged and sent home. The antibody cocktail shot became notable after it was administered to former United States President Donald Trump last year. The therapy is said to reduce the chance of hospitalisation by 70 per cent in patients with mild to moderate

Covid-19

symptoms. Doctors said the method is not recommended for patients who are hospitalised with severe Covid-19. Currently, is administered to patients who are aged above 12 and weigh above 40 kilograms. The cocktail is made of two

monoclonal antibodies

that are artificially created in a laboratory.