Covid-19: Hospital cases up, but symptoms are mainly flu-like, say doctors

Hospitals across India are seeing a slight increase in the number of hospitalisations mostly in elderly with comorbidities. Doctors say Covid-19 positive patients are predominantly showing flu-like symptoms including fever, sore throat, runny nose. There are some who are coming in with abdominal pain and diarrhoea.

In a span of 5 days, 10 people got admitted in hospitals across

, However, “none of the 10 Covid-19 patients admitted at our Delhi-NCR and Mumbai hospitals are critical. They are mainly people who are elderly or individuals with comorbidities,” said Sandeep Budhiraja, group medical director, Max healthcare.

Budhiraja said that the patients presented with fever and non-specific symptoms who tested positive and were advised admission.

“They are all stable and recovering well. A few are slated for discharge this week,” added Budhiraja. Doctors say that many of them who got infected are fully vaccinated, many of them have even taken January. The silver lining, they say, is that the symptoms are mild.

“The number of hospitalisations will go up as the numbers increase but so far we have seen that most people have mild symptoms,” added Budhiraja.

Indraprastha

in Delhi which has so far only 2 admissions say that “people are showing up with similar symptoms except that this time they have severe body ache,” said Suranjit Chatterjee, senior consultant, internal medicine, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi.

In Delhi, which has been seeing an uptick in the number of Covid cases, so far 79 occupied beds, 61 oxygen beds and 24 ICU beds, according to the Delhi government’s corona app.

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