Coronavirus: US allows blood plasma treatment

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The US Food and Drug Administration have given emergency authorisation for the use of convalescent blood plasma to treat coronavirus patients. The technique takes antibody-rich blood plasma from people who've recovered from the disease, giving it by transfusion to the sick. A court in New Zealand has heard how an Australian white supremacist convicted of murdering fifty-one Muslim worshippers at two mosques last year had planned his attack to cause maximum casualties. Prosecutors said Brenton Tarrant had timed the shootings for when the mosques would be at their busiest. Huge wildfires are scorching parts of the state of California. The fires started at the height of the heat wave and are said to have been ignited by lightning strikes.