The Indian variant continues to scare and now gods seem to have emerged new worrying symptoms which, according to what Indian doctors have reported, are associated with this strain of coronavirus.
Despite the improvement in the epidemiological situation in Italy and in other countries, the greatest threat at the moment is represented by the Indian variant, now known as the Delta variant after the renaming of the mutations, given its greater contagiousness which could also lead to an increase in the hospitalization rate. But let’s see what are the new symptoms reported by the Indian authorities.
Indian variant, new symptoms discovered
The Indian variant turned out to be more contagious, so much so that at the moment it is responsible for 90% of infections in the United Kingdom. But new observations come from some Indian doctors who have found themselves having to manage the epidemic in their country. Indeed, it seems that Covid patients with the Delta variant have developed gods new symptoms never seen in patients affected by other mutations.
Specifically, one was observed hearing impairment, serious gastrointestinal disorders e blood clots That causes cancrena. Abdul Ghafur, infectious disease specialist at Apollo Hospital in Chennai told Bloomberg that more research is needed. “To analyze whether these new clinical manifestations are associated with the variant or not. Last year, we thought we had learned all about our new enemy, and instead it has changed. This virus has become so unpredictable “.
Going even more specifically, Indian doctors noted that patients with the Indian variant experienced stomach pain, nausea, loss of appetite, hearing loss and joint pain. In some cases, gods have also appeared microtrombi, that is small blood clots, which have caused the death of the affected tissues and gangrene, so much so that for some patients it was also necessaryamputation of some fingers.
The situation in India
At the moment in India the situation continues to be criticism. In 2021 alone, 18.6 million cases of Covid-19 were reached, compared to 10.3 million recorded last year.
According to experts, the cause of this surge in new cases is due precisely to diffusion of the Delta variant, believed to be 50% more contagious than the Alpha strain, more commonly known as the English variant.
