Updated Dec 29, 2020 | 13:31 IST
If a patient has not undergone the test and is not even aware of Covid and subsequent recovery, doctors would have to wonder about the different types of disease, if he comes up with an issue. Number of people turning up for Covid tests in West Bengal falls, experts sound alarm | Photo Credit: AP
Kolkata: The city doctors are worried about the apathy among the common people to get them tested for Covid. The number of people turning up for tests has fallen over the last few weeks.
The number of people coming for Covid tests across the state has fallen from 47,000 a month-and-a-half back to just 32,000 on an average across 99 labs, according to health department officials. They are attributing the fall to an increasing sense of reluctance towards visiting clinics for tests.
A 26-year-old man who had recovered from Covid-19 three months back suffered a cerebral stroke this week and died at a hospital in Calcutta.
The youth’s family members, who did not want to disclose his identity, said he did not have any medical condition before being infected with the novel coronavirus.
There have been a number of cases in the city of people suffering a cerebral stroke or a cardiac arrest a few weeks or months after recovering from Covid. Doctors are classifying these, as well as other serious problems like infections in the brain, as some of the severe post-Covid complications.