A Review on the Dermatological Manifestations of COVID-19

Siddhaarth, K.; Chakole, S.

An epic Covid named '2019-nCoV' also called '2019 novel Covid's or 'Coronavirus' by the World Health Organization is responsible for the stated disease of pneumonia that started from the December month of 2019 in Wuhan City of Hubei, China (Fong S et. al. 2020). Coronavirus is a pathogenic infection. From the phylogenetic investigation completed with complete genomic arrangements, bats happen to be likely the COVID-19 infection origin, however the temporary hosts have not been identified with evidence till now. A lot of information is yet to be acquired about this virus and even after more than ten months since the start of this documented disease we still stand nowhere near knowing the virus. Regardless, very minimal clinical information on COVID-19 infection is at present accessible and solid information on age susceptibility, the confirm cause of the infection, brooding time, episodes, viral load, dispersal pathogenesis, examination protocols, and any clinical reactions to antivirals are missing to have strong clinical evidence. Many dermatologists have reported abnormal cutaneous manifestations in COVID-19 patients and started to analyse the several reasons for these cutaneous manifestations to occur and which can be used as a diagnostic tool in identifying COVID-19 positive patients at an early stage. Many studies have been done which proves that dermatological symptoms are one of the major symptoms that can be seen. The main aim of this review article is to summarise the different findings in the field of cutaneous manifestations linked to COVID-19 and to understand the importance of dermatological symptoms as vital aiding tool for diagnosis of COVID-19 on a large scale.