Clinical presentation of COVID-19 and the treatment course
Regarding the clinical presentation of COVID-19, the most prevalent
symptoms were malaise (73.8%), fever (64%), cough (54.3%), headache
(51.6%), anosmia (50.9%), and dysgeusia (48.1%). On the other hand,
22.4% of COVID patients were asymptomatic. [The frequencies and
percentages of other symptoms are outlined in Table 1]. The treatment
requirements were: symptomatic treatment (61.5%), no treatment
(25.9%), and more invasive forms of treatment (12.6%)).
Hospitalisation was required in 21.7% of patients (n=88) and 5.5% of
participants were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) (n=22).
[Table 2]