24% of COVID-19 recovered patients reporting symptoms
The Hindu
Common issues include coughing, breathlessness, tiredness and sleeplessness
Around 24% of patients in the city, who were infected with SARS-CoV-2, continued having symptoms long past the time they recovered from the initial phases of COVID-19, whereas 76% completely recovered from the infection. Corporation Commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi said doctors had started offering tele-counselling services for helping such patients with “long-haul COVID-19”. Rubeshkumar, consultant, Indian Council of Medical Research - National Institute of Epidemiology, said 48.2% of the respondents selected randomly for the rapid needs assessment for post COVID-19 symptoms were those who recovered after getting admitted to a hospital. Others were in home isolation.More Related News