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Clinical characteristics and predictors of COVID-19 in a community sample from urban areas of Chennai, Southern India.

Sivapriya Murugesan, Hema C Ramamurthi, Saramma M Jacob, Srinivas Govindarajulu

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Sivapriya MurugesanDepartment of Epidemiology, The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, No. 69, Anna Salai, Chennai, 113 India.
Hema C RamamurthiDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA.
Saramma M JacobDepartment of Experimental Medicine, The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, No. 69, Anna Salai, Chennai, 113 India.
Srinivas GovindarajuluDepartment of Epidemiology, The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, No. 69, Anna Salai, Chennai, 113 India.

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Abstract

In early 2020, with the arrival of the first case of COVID-19 in India, the laboratory at The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University was recognized as a national testing site and received samples from two zones of Greater Chennai Corporation. This descriptive study analyzed the testing outcomes, along with demographics, self-reported symptoms, potential exposure to COVID-19 that were recorded in Sample Report Forms between June and September 2020. Nasopharygeal/oropharyngeal swabs were tested for SARS CoV-2 by RT-PCR Test. Of the 18,082 samples that were tested, 18% (3267) received a COVID-19 positive RT-PCR result for COVID-19. Among the COVID-19 positives, 40.9% (1336) were females (

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