Objective: To investigate the symptoms of COVID-19 disease cases which according to published scientific literature mainly includes upper respiratory track symptoms.Study Design: Case series study.Place and Duration of Study: It was carried out at ENT department, Pakistan Naval Ship Shifa, Karachi, from Mar 2020 to Jun 2020.Methodology: It was from March, 2020 to June, 2020.Patients included in study were above the age of 10 years who were able silicone-anal-toys to give us the details about their symptoms, contact and recent travel history and cooperated for their nasopharyngeal swabs for COVID-19 RT PCR tests.
Probability, convenient, sampling technique was used for our study.Frequencies of age, gender, clinical symptoms of patients were analyzed by using descriptive statistics of SPSS.Results: This study included 231 patients with COVID -19 positive nasopharyngeal swabs for RT-PC, out of which 200 were males and 31 were females.Mean age is 38.23 ± 14.
77 years.Among the airway symptoms, multiple symptoms like fever, cough, myalgia were seen in 84 cases (36.4%) and cough was found in 22 (9.5%) of patients.Fever with cough was seen in 21 (9.
2%) of patients.58 (25.1%) cases were asymptomatic and were carriers.History of contact was positive Covers in 122 (52.8%) of cases.
Conclusion: COVID patients have fever, cough and myalgia as the most common symptoms and such patients should be assessed with care and as per the standard guidelines of institutions.