Doctors fear alarming new symptoms linked to Indian COVID-19 variant

Doctors in India fear that the dangerous new COVID-19 variant in the country is linked to a host of troubling new symptoms – including gangrene from blood clots, hearing impairment and severe gastric upsets.

Six doctors treating patients across India have all told Bloomberg News they have experienced a wide variety of conditions, including stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, hearing loss and joint pain in patients with the so-called Delta variant, or B1.617.2. Dr. Ganesh Manudhane, a Mumbai cardiologist who has treated eight patients at the Seven Hills Hospital, said some of his patients have developed micro thrombi — or small blood clots.