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Introduction: COVID-19 is a pandemic with over 100 million cases worldwide & 11 million cases in India. This disease has imposed a huge burden on health resources. Evaluation of clinical and sociodemographic profiles of such patients can help in understanding and managing the outbreak more efficiently. Objective: To describe the sociodemographic characteristics & clinical profiles of Covid-19 infected patients admitted to a dedicated covid hospital, Raigarh (CG) from November 2020 to January 2021.Methods: This study is a cross sectional retrospective observational analysis of diagnosed Covid-19 patients admitted to a dedicated covid hospital, Raigarh (CG) from November 2020 to January 2021. The methodology comprises of data collection among all discharged patients in 3 months through telephone in a predesigned pre tested proforma which includes sociodemographic characteristics & clinical profile. Results: 390 patients with Covid-19 who had an average age of 34.2±9.4 years were included with slight male preponderance (68%). Nearly half (53%) of these cases were from the urban area, around (37%) came under lower middle socioeconomic class and 21% were doing health-care related jobs. The most common suspected contact was due to interstate travel (59%). Of all, 86% of patients were symptomatic and presented with fever (73%), followed by myalgia (62%) & cough (48%). Hypertension being the most common (16.7%) co morbidity. The case fatality rate among the admitted cases was 9.4%. Conclusion: Patients were mostly middle aged, male, working & had history of interstate travel. Typical presentations were fever, cough, headache & breathlessness. Co morbidity was associated with bad prognosis.

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