Rare cases of black fungus infection of small intestine found in patients at Delhi hospital

Patients at a leading private facility in Delhi were diagnosed with 'Mucormycosis' or black fungus in the small intestine, the doctors have termed it as "rare" cases. Both patients had tested positive for COVID-19. 

New Delhi: Patients at a leading private facility in Delhi were diagnosed with 'Mucormycosis' or black fungus in the small intestine, the doctors have termed it as "rare" cases. Both patients had tested positive for COVID-19.  Kumar, a 56-year-old resident from Delhi had barely completed the last rites of his wife when he experienced pain in his abdomen. He has already lost two members of his family to COVID while he himslef had tested positive for coronavirus along with his wife. He had been experiencing mild symptoms initially. His abdominal pain was considered gastritis or stress-related and there he self-medicated for acidity, this delayed proper treatment by three days.