Clinical spectrum of covid-19 in indian scenario

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Dr Tapan Biswas, Dr. Koushick Chowdhury, Dr. Sekhar Ranjan Pal, Dr.Asis kumar Manna and Dr.Anima Halder

COVID19 is a newly recovered corona virus that causing respiratory tract infection. Now it is a pandemic disease and causing deaths of millions of people over the world. It is a droplet infection and rapidly spread from human to human. Most of the corona virus causing mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in a tertiary centre for COVID-19, at Kolkata in West Bengal, India. According to severity of these patients were categorized into four groups:
Acute severe respiratory illness (SARI): Fever associated with cough, sore throat, lethargy and shortness of breath.
Moderate symptomatic: fever, cough, throat pain, diarrhea, generalize body ache, fatigue.
Mild symptom: no fever but mild dry cough, sneezing malaise, hyposmia.
Asymptomatic: apparently normal but history of contact with COVID-19.
Result: Out of 100 COVId19 patients, 14 patients were severe group and 8 patients required respiratory support.
Conclusion: 86% of COVID19 was spontaneously recovered and mortality rate is 6% in Indian scenario. Patients with co-morbidity are more complicated.

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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2020.22359.4406
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