Four-fold surge in long COVID cases after second wave, reveals study
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Updated: Jul 17, 2021 13:24 IST
By Joymala Bagchi
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): The manifestation of post-COVID-19 complications in a number of patients is four-fold higher in the second wave as compared to the first wave, a study by Apollo Hospitals has revealed.
The long COVID cases are referred to instances where a patient suffer from COVID-related complications for longer duration and these cases have surged.
The Delta variant that caused havoc this year in April caused extreme causality and the latter was termed as virus of concern (VoC) by the Union Health Ministry saw "newer symptoms like high-grade fever, diarrhoea, severe lung infection followed by long COVID syndrome and post COVID complications like falling oxygen levels and lung fibrosis that manifested even after eight weeks or more of testing positive," the study reads.