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By 6 April 2020, authorities have confirmed over 1.2 million cases of COVID-19 and around 69,000 coronavirus-related deaths globally. There was a day-on-day, week-on-week rise in all three reported categories: cases, deaths, and recoveries. According to Johns Hopkins’ Coronavirus Resource Centre, more than 2.6 lakh people have recovered from this infectious disease across the world.
In India, more than 4,000 people have been confirmed with COVID-19 infection and the more than 100 deaths have been reported so far. The relieving news among all this is that more than 300 people have recovered from this potentially dangerous disease.
The scientific community has been working day and night to find a cure for COVID-19. Doctors have tried and are working on various treatment options such as antibody treatment with tocilizumab, passive antibody therapy, tissue plasminogen activator and repurposing already existing drugs (Ebola drug and malaria drug for COVID-19) to treat this disease.
Read more: Inventive treatments for COVID-19
People are getting anxious as they do not know which symptoms are mild and which are severe. They want to know how long these symptoms persist in a person’s body before they get healthy. In this article, we will tell you the mild and severe symptoms of COVID-19 infection along with its recovery time.
What are the mild and severe symptoms of COVID-19?
The World Health Organisation says that the time limit for the onset to the development of the severe disease, including hypoxia, is 1 week.
Mild symptoms of COVID-19 include:
- Fever
- Dry cough
- Shortness of breath (occasional)
The severe symptoms of COVID-19 are:
- Extreme difficulty in breathing
- Persistent chest pain
- Sudden confusion (delirium)
- Bluish discolouration of lips or face
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What is the recovery time for COVID-19?
According to the World Health Organisation, the total time from onset to clinical recovery for mild cases is approximately 2 weeks.
However, the recovery of patients with severe or critical disease can take up to 3 to 6 weeks.
The patients are discharged only after clinical recovery, which means they have not developed a fever for 3 days, have no cough and the X-rays look clear. Their two PCR tests, taken 24 hours apart, should be negative in order to get discharged.
Even after getting discharged, they are asked to minimise family and social contact and wear a mask for a few weeks in order to reduce the risk of transmitting the disease. If a recovered person starts having any symptom all again, they must report to the previous hospital as soon as possible.
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References
- World Health Organization [Internet]. Geneva (SUI): World Health Organization; Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention [internet], Atlanta (GA): US Department of Health and Human Services; Symptoms of Coronavirus
