Publication date: Feb 16, 2025

Despite visible, grave symptoms, long Covid continues to evade diagnosis, as scientists have found no significant laboratory markers that could indicate its presence. The healthcare sector in India still doesn’t know the exact nature of the burden of long Covid with OPDs seeing a surge in patients but no proper documentation. “Long Covid is definitely a chronic condition, but we do not know the exact nature of its burden,” said Komal Shah, associate professor at the IIPHG. That’s the gap researchers in Gandhinagar have set out to fill with a review of various studies so the big picture becomes clear. The protocol outlining the methodology of the review is listed in an article, published in the journal Frontiers in ‘Rehabilitation Sciences’. “This will be finalised once we are done with the screening (of the studies),” the co-lead researcher said. However, studies emerging from India in this regard carry scattered data.

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