Epidemiological and clinical profile of novel coronavirus disease (COVID 19) in a hospital in Metropolitan India
1 ESI Hospital, Okhla, New Delhi, India.
2 ABG Hospital, Moti Nagar, New Delhi, India.
3 College of Nursing, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2020, 08(01), 254-262
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2020.8.1.0370
Publication history:
Received on 06 October 2020; revised on 19 October 2020; accepted on 22 October 2020
Abstract:
Context: To understand the epidemiological and clinical profile of COVID 19.
Aims: To study the epidemiological and clinical profile of Novel Coronavirus disease with comorbidities and outcome. Settings and Design: In this single centre study, we included patients with suspected and confirmed cases of COVID 19
Methods and Material: We followed the testing criteria for COVID 19 laid down by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India. COVID 19 positive patients were divided as mild, moderate and severe and followed till discharge or death. Data was collected through interview of patients and hospital records.
Results: A total of 178 suspected cases of COVID 19 reported to our hospital in this duration. Out of these, confirmed positive cases were 66 in number. Among 66 COVID 19 positive patients 11 were Health Care Workers. The Median age of the patients was 37 years. Most of the confirmed COVID patients were young and middle aged between 15 to 49 years age (69.69 %). 66.66 % were males and 33.33% were females. Case fatality rate was 4.54%. In our study only 15.15% had history of contact with COVID 19 positive patients.
Conclusions: Fever is the most common presenting symptom but fever should not be the exclusion criteria. Since there is silent spread of virus in the community among the asymptomatic patients there is need to increase the number of testing. Containment and mitigation strategy like Social distancing should be maintained. Routine screening of Health Care Workers should be done.
Keywords:
COVID 19; Novel Coronavirus 2019; Lockdown; Global pandemic
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