Most suffer from diabetes, obesity, hypertension and cancer.
Some experts believe COVID-19 survivors may suffer from long-term mental health and respiratory problems. For more on this we are joined by the Chairperson of the COVID-19 Ministerial Advisory Commitee, Professor Salim Abdool Karim. CourtesyNew research from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases shows that a third of patients admitted with COVID-19 have at least one comorbidity.
"We look at three measures when we look at this disease in order to ensure that not any one of them is skewed."The first thing we look at is how many people are testing positive? Then you want to know how many of those patients are getting admitted to hospital and among those you want to know how many are dying and so we look at all three measures," he said.- Coronavirus Hotline Number: 0800 029 999 from 8am to 4pm, Monday to FridaySend HI to 0600 123 456 on WhatsApp.
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