Frequency of Symptoms of COVID-19 Disease among the People of Bangladesh

Abstract

Aims: To find out the differences of symptoms of COVID-19 diseases among vaccinated and unvaccinated individual. Study Design: This was a cross section type observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Out door of cost guard Hospital Dhaka Bangladesh from July 2021 to January 2022. Methodology: Here all persons who were found positive RT-PCR for COVID-19 from July 2021 to January 2022 were included in this study. This study was carried out among people who were serving under Cost guard Bangladesh. Here we had included all persons who became infected with COVID-19 irrespective of sex, ethnicity and vaccination status against COVID-19. Sampling was done by purposive random sampling method. Sample size was 104. Data analysis was done by using SPSS-26. Results: In this study most of the participants (72.2%) were among 20-39 years age group and 97% were male. There was no specific symptom of COVID-19 rather its presentation mimics many other diseases. Fever (90.4%) and cough (85.6%) were found most common presentation. Other symptoms were sore throat (65.4%), loss of taste sensation (64.4%), headache (54.8%), loss of smell (40.4%), fatigue (36.5%) and loose motion (09.6%). In this study most of the participants (89%) were not vaccinated against COVID-19 before they have been infected with SARS COV-2. In this study we found that most prominent symptoms were fever and cough, of them 13% were vaccinated whereas 87% participants were not vaccinated against COVID-19 infection. Conclusion: COVID-19 disease affects many part of the body and it’s presentation varies depending its effects on organs. Vaccine is an important invention to combat against COVID-19 though it cannot prevent a person from being infected. Vaccination cannot immune a person from being infected but it significantly reduced symptoms of infection. So vaccinations have beneficial effects.