COVID-19 (corona virus disease 2019) is a global public health emergency caused by a new corona virus with severe acute respiratory syndromelike characteristics (SARS-CoV-2). We aimed to evaluate whether gender and age are major risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection. For the study,
300 positive cases diagnosed during the period of July 2020 to September 2020 were included. Results showed that 69% of study samples were
male of which 84% were in the >51 years old age group. And 31% of study samples were female of which 63% were in the 4-19 years old age group.
ANOVAresults indicated that the means of Ct values varied signicantly between age groups (F=2.703; p-value= 0.045). The lower Ct values were
recorded in males (29.01±4.35) in comparison to females (29.84±3.98) while, the difference between the means of the two groups was not
signicant. Our study concluded that males have higher viral load than females and for both sexes, age was found to be a signicant risk factor for
severity of COVID-19.
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