Online ISSN: 2515-8260

Long COVID disease among symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 patients: A multi-centric descriptive study

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1N Pragathi Kumar, 2Sheldon Thompson, 3Tagaram Ramchandra, 4Renu Waghmare

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Introduction: According to WHO, 3 months from the onset of COVID-19 with symptoms and that last for at least 2 months and cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis is considered as post COVID-19 syndrome or long COVID. Objective: Objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence various symptoms in post COVID syndrome/long COVID cases within 3 months from the recovery or infection. Methods: This multicentric hospital based cross sectional study was done among 113 Long COVID cases of 567 previously infected COVID-19 subjects at COVID clinics in Telangana (Hyderabad, Nalgonda) and Madya Pradesh (Indore), India for 1 year during January to December 2021. Data was entered into Microsoft exceland results were displayed by numbers and frequencies only.

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