More people with no comorbidity passed away suffering from Covid-19 in the 7th epidemiological week compared to the week before, according to the weekly death analysis released by the Directorate General of Health Services on Wednesday.
Nearly 62 per cent of 146 deaths recorded in the epidemiological week ending on February 20 had comorbid conditions, according to the death analysiBut in the epidemiological week before people with comorbidity accounted for nearly 69 per cent of 230 deaths, said the death analysis.
Comorbidity means having more than one illness at a time which greatly determines how severe the Covid symptoms will be among infected individualDuring the last wave that peaked in late July last year caused by the Delta variant people with comorbid conditions were especially vulnerable to the disease.s.s.
