New Delhi: With India’s corona count at 47 lakh today, India ranks second in the world in Corona cases. However, recovery rate puts it ahead of many of its peers.
According to Health Ministry data a total of 37,02,595 people have recovered from the virus till now. The recovery rate has improved to 77.88 per cent.
For last few days, over 90,000 cases are being reported on daily basis but the fatality rate has dropped to 1.65 per cent. Death toll stands at 78,586 with 1,114 people succumbing to the infection in a span of 24 hours.
There are 9,73,175 active cases of COVID-19 in the country which is 20.47 per cent of the total caseload.
According to ICMR, total of 5.62 crore samples have been tested till Saturday. Over 10 lakh samples are being tested on daily basis.
Now, the focus is post-Covid care. Health experts have observed that after COVID-19 infection, a full recovery still remains a challenge. Those patients who have recovered from this disease complain of fatigue and are not able to return to normal level of well-being even after passage of time. The same phenomenon was seen in the SARS virus which affected Hong Kong and other countries.
“Post-COVID care is coming up across India. Recovered patients with their negative RTPCR test result are suffering from severe to mild weakness, skin rashes, headache, diarrhoea, mild pain in the abdomen which persist for long. Some patients also notice low-grade fever,” said Dr Anup Kumar, Professor and Head of Urology and Renal Transplant Department, Safdarjung hospital.
Dr Ajay Kaul, Chairman & HOD-CTVS, BLK Super Speciality Hospital said, “Nothing is known about long term problems but close observation and watch on patients must be observed on recovered patients or those patients who had only mild symptoms. We need to be very careful and repeat medical examination. Investigation will be necessary to diagnose these patients in an early stage so that they don’t go into a chronic stage of heart failure or pulmonary fibrosis. The damages to the Organs like kidney, lungs and brain need to be evaluated carefully.”
