Infectious Diseases

Biography

Biography: Malaz I. Ibrahim

Abstract

Problem statement:

In December 2019 a novel coronavirus has been emerged in Wuhan city, China.(1, 2) To date COVID 19 has spread to almost every continent in the world, infecting millions and producing thousands of deaths. Although it was anticipated that Africa would suffer a huge loss of life, the number of COVID-19 cases have been proportionately low across the continent. (3,4)

Methodology :

This analytical cross sectional, community based study that carried in Sudan during the 2nd wave of COVID-19, patients who were diagnosed using RT-PCR, CT Chest or blood tests and gave an ethical consent to participate were included, using Slovin’s Formula(5) the sample size was calculated and 100+15 %(n=444) was collected. Data was entered and analyzed using SPSS version 23.

Results:

This study set out to study the natural history of COVID-19 disease. It included 444 patients, their mean age was 32.77 years. 51.4% had a history of contact 14 days prior to their infection, despite that 62% of them has a good adherence to the preventive measures . fever is the most common symptoms, unlike the published literature on common symptoms headache and anosmia and aguesia were identified to be more prevalent in 64%. 63.7% had a mild or asymptomatic course of disease while 14% had severe or critical illness . Nearly 23 of the patients had a good functional outcome, and there is significant correlation between functional outcome and disease severity (p=0.000). Respiratory and cardiovascular complications have been demonstrated by the patients, interestingly some of them suffered problem in taste and smell, chronic headache and malaria following their infection.

Conclusion:

Fever has identified as the most common symptom , loss of smell and taste was prevalent in 63.4%. Further studies need to be carried out in order to validate the nature of COVID-19 in Sudan.