Doctors have reported an increase in cases of moderate to complete hearing loss in the second wave
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Express News Service
BENGALURU: While England and Scotland have confirmed that the most infectious Delta variant of the SARS-COV2 virus has increased hospitalisation, doctors in Karnataka are seeing an increase in many Covid-19 patients coming in with complaints of hearing loss during the second wave, along with symptoms of gangrene.Though there is no evidence yet on the increase in such cases during the second wave, like in the case of mucormyrosis, doctors confirmed that there has definitely been an increase in such cases related to either moderate to complete hearing loss problems.
Dr Vamsi Veeramachaneni said such a spread could be prevented and policy decision on lockdown, tracing, tracking etc., can be effective if they are based on genomic data.