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New Delhi, May 22: Two patients at a leading private facility here, both of whom had tested positive for COVID-19, were diagnosed with Mucormycosis in the small intestine, which the doctors termed as “rare” cases.
Mucormycosis or black fungus, most commonly involves rhino-orbital-cerebral system or the lungs. Intestinal or GI mucormycosis is very “rare disease”, and most commonly involves stomach or large intestine, according to doctors at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here.
A 56-year-old Delhi resident, who had lost three of his family members including his wife to COVID, had barely completed the last rites of his wife when he experienced pain in his abdomen.
He had tested positive for coronavirus along with his wife and had been experiencing mild symptoms initially, the hospital said in a statement. His…