Dhaka, May 27 -- He said he took 200 millilitre serum from a recovered COVID-19 patient on Tuesday afternoon.

"I am feeling well now," he told bdnews24.com over the phone.

In plasma therapy, blood plasma from the recovered patients is transfused into current patients with the hope the freshly-made antibodies it contains will help fight the virus. Bangladesh has recently begun trialling the therapy.

Zafrullah, 79, also said he would not undergo RT-PCR test for coronavirus because the rapid testing kit developed by his organisation confirmed that he has been infected.

Bangladesh only allows RT-PCR testing system for coronavirus diagnosis. It is the most reliable testing system in the world to detect the novel coronavirus called SARS-CoV...