Coronavirus News: Cases of post-covid complications on rise in Delhi, many require oxygen support
As compared to fatigue, which was the most common post-COVID marker last year, most patients are now requiring Oxygen support in the wake of having recovered from COVID-19 during the second wave of COVID-19.
Publish Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2021 11:11 AM IST
New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: The dip in COVID-19 cases has not resulted in a low patient load in the OPDs across many hospitals in Delhi. The hospitals in the national capital are witnessing a rise in the number of patients with serious post-Covid complications.
According to a media report, doctors are now seeing 25-30 patients with post-COVID complications in the Out Patient Departments (OPDs) with the symptoms far serious and worse than the first wave last year. As compared to fatigue, which was the most common post-COVID marker last year, most patients are now requiring Oxygen support in the wake of having recovered from COVID-19 du
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Synopsis
The novel coronavirus variant that is causing the current wave of Covid-19 is not just highly infectious but also stealthy. City hospitals say they are getting cases where a patient has typical symptoms of the disease but tests negative for the viral infection, sometimes twice or thrice even through RT-PCR which is considered the gold standard for Covid testing.
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(This story originally appeared in on Apr 13, 2021)The novel coronavirus variant that is causing the current wave of Covid-19 is not just highly infectious but also stealthy.
City hospitals say there are getting cases where a patient has typical symptoms of the disease but tests negative for the viral infection, sometimes twice or thrice even through RT-PCR, considered the gold standard for Covid testing.
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NEW DELHI: The novel coronavirus variant that is causing the current wave of Covid-19 is not just highly infectious but also stealthy. City hospitals say there are getting cases where a patient has typical symptoms of the disease but tests negative for the viral infection, sometimes twice or thrice even through RT-PCR, considered the gold standard for Covid testing.
“We have received many such patients in the past few days. They had fever, cough, shortness of breath and the CT scan of the lungs showed lighter-coloured or gray patches. It is referred to as patchy ground glass opacity in medical terms. The condition is one of the defining characteristics of Covid-19,” Dr Aashish Chaudhry, managing director of Aakash Healthcare, said.