Multiple organ damage reported in young people with coronavirus

Signs of damage to multiple organs have been reported in young, previously healthy people with ongoing coronavirus symptoms four months after their initial infection, a UK study revealed on Sunday.

The Coverscan study aims to assess the long-term impact of COVID-19 on organ health in approximately 500 “low-risk” individuals, mainly those who are relatively young with ongoing coronavirus symptoms, but no major underlying health problems. , The Guardian reported.

Preliminary data from the first 200 patients suggested that within four months of the initial disease, nearly 70 percent reported damage to one or more organs, including heart, lungs, liver and pancreas.

“The good news is that the damage is mild, but even with a conservative lens, there is some damage, and in 25% of people it affects two or more organs,” Amitava Banerjee, cardiologist and associate professor of clinical data science at University College London is said to have said.

“This is interesting because we need to know if (the impairments) continue or improve, or if there is a subset of people who could get worse,” Banerjee said.

Another 24,962 people in Britain tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 1,369,318, according to official data released on Sunday.

The data showed that coronavirus-related deaths in Britain increased from 168 to 51,934.

Britain is the first European nation to record more than 50,000 coronavirus deaths. It is the fifth country in the world to reach the milestone, after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico.

England is currently under a one-month national lockdown until December 2, the second of its kind since the coronavirus outbreak in Britain, in an attempt to quell the coronavirus resurgence.

To bring life back to normal, countries like Britain, China, Germany, Russia and the United States are racing against time to develop coronavirus vaccines.