US allows emergency Covid-19 plasma treatment

Published: Aug. 24, 2020, 2:30 p.m.

The US Food and Drug Administration gives emergency authorisation to use plasma to treat Covid patients, is it a potential pandemic game-changer? Also in the programme: The US Republican National Convention begins, how will it work this year? And, more arrests of opposition figures in Belarus amid anti-government demonstrations. (Photo: Convalescent plasma from a recovered coronavirus disease patient. Credit: Reuters/Lindsey Wasson)