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Topic: Covid symptoms

55% severe Covid patients still have at least one symptom two years later, finds Lancet study

Study by researchers at Chinese institutions followed up with 1,192 participants at 6 months, 12 months & 2 years after recovery from Covid. Longest follow-up study on Covid till date.

Did your child test positive for Covid? Doctors say don’t worry, most kids recover in 3-4 days

Paediatricians emphasise symptomatic treatment, balanced diet. It's important to get eligible minors vaccinated, they say, adding that it's too early to gauge long-term effects of Omicron.

Cough or fever first? Covid variants can make symptoms appear in different order, US study says

Symptom order can change with mutations in the virus, finds a study by researchers from the University of Southern California, published in 'PLOS Computational Biology'.

Half of hospitalised Covid patients have persisting symptoms after a year, Lancet study says

Shortness of breath & lung impairments lasted the longest – 1 in 3 people experienced them, especially if they had severe Covid, study says.

Coronavirus could possibly spread through faeces of infected patients, ICMR study finds

The study by the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology, Pune, observed a family of four patients and found the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in all their stool samples.

Covid nails — These changes to your fingernails can show if you’ve had coronavirus

At best, we should regard these as potential indicators of a past infection – and not definitive proof.

On Camera

Sanjeev Sanyal says UPSC is poverty of aspiration. But it’s more about desperation

The most productive years of Indian youth gets wasted preparing for the UPSC. But they didn't create this system; the government did.

Why Tamil Nadu’s women make up nearly half of India’s female factory workforce

With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.

BRO connects new axis to Ladakh, to be shortest route

The all-weather Nimmu-Padam-Darcha Road will connect Manali to Leh through Darcha and Nimmu on Kargil-Leh Highway.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.