24% of COVID-19-recovered patients in Chennai reporting symptoms

Around 24% of patients in the town, who have been contaminated with SARS-CoV-2, continued having symptoms long gone the time they recovered from the preliminary phases of COVID-19, whereas 76% fully recovered from the an infection.

Corporation Commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi mentioned docs had began providing tele-counselling providers for serving to such patients with “long-haul COVID-19”.

Rubeshkumar, advisor, Indian Council of Medical Research – National Institute of Epidemiology, mentioned 48.2% of the respondents chosen randomly for the speedy wants evaluation for submit COVID-19 symptoms have been those that recovered after getting admitted to a hospital. Others have been in residence isolation.

Over 34% of the patients included in the evaluation had one of the comorbidities.

Over 23% had diabetes, 19% hypertension, 3.2% coronary heart illness, 0.8% kidney problems and 1.1% bronchial asthma.

The symptoms included coughing, breathlessness, tiredness and sleeplessness. Weight loss (9%), hair loss (7%), fatigue/tiredness (7%) and sleeplessness (5%) have been the opposite generally reported symptoms.

Just 1.6% of the people reported persistent breathlessness, 0.8% reported joint ache, 0.7% loss of urge for food and 0.5% reported loss of reminiscence after the COVID-19 an infection. Of the residents who reported symptoms post-recovery, 57% have been males and 43% have been ladies. Persistent symptoms have been increased among the many age group of 45-59 years (40%), adopted by 30-44 years (24%).

Among those that remained asymptomatic in the course of the energetic section of the an infection, 4% reported symptoms.

Post-COVID-19 symptoms have been considerably increased amongst these hospitalised than these in residence isolation, and likewise increased amongst those that required oxygen remedy, officers mentioned.

Persistent symptoms past 12 weeks of COVID-19 have been reported from numerous zones.