Pune COVID19: Learn which are the most common symptoms seen in and around city

Pune: A study collated on the basis of data sought from the Pune Municipal Corporation’s iHealWell app reveals that weakness and breathlessness are the most common symptoms in Patients across the city.

The data of 6,631 critical patients uploaded to the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) app found weakness and breathlessness to be the most common symptom present in 3,657 Covid-19 patients.

Additional commissioner Rubal Agrawal said, “The data helps us understand the patient management system of critical patients in the city hospitals. However, it is also true that most hospitals refused to update information on the portal. The quantity may be low, but the conclusion is right based on the data uploaded.”

A loss of smell and taste was reported in 10% of the patients. The study also showed that of all the admitted patients who turned critical, 69% did not have any comorbidity.

The study is based on data uploaded to the PMC’s iHealWell app for critical patients from 70 hospitals across the city. The patients were admitted between July 25 and October 28.

Data of 6,631 patients admitted to hospitals was entered into the database, of which 4,535 (68.5%) were male and 2,096 (31.5%) were female.