Online Yoga helped 92 pc home isolated patients in fast Covid recovery

New Delhi, May: The Delhi Government on Friday said its Dilli ki Yogshala program has helped over 92 per cent of home isolated Covid-19 patients in quick recovery from the illness after they got enrolled for the yoga classes. According to the latest impact study conducted by Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University (DPSRU) over 4,600 participants, 92.3 per cent among them, who attended these yoga classes, said there was immediate improvement in overall symptoms while 88.9 per cent patients claimed improvement in breathlessness after they started attending the yoga classes. Most of the patients involved in the research were between 30 and 70 years old, the researchers said. “92.3 per cent patients showed improvement in overall symptoms while only 21 per cent patients were taking drugs for COVID during this period,” according to the study. “The majority of patients showed improvements within 5 to 7 days while most of the patients admitted that they did not face the problem of breathlessness due to yoga during the infection,” it added. The research also showed that most of the infected admitted that by doing yoga, they got relief from symptoms like cough, cold, body ache, sleeplessness, breathlessness etc. The customized online yoga classes worked to eliminate the feeling of loneliness as well as improve mental health. Vice Chancellor, DPSRU, Ramesh K Goyal said patients got relief from Covid-19 symptoms like cough, cold, breathlessness etc within 5-7 days of attending the yoga classes which was conducted online for the patients. Responding to the results, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Shri Manish Sisodia said in a statement, “The findings of the impact study on COVID patients shows that people have accepted our initiative to make yoga a part of everyday life wholeheartedly. During COVID, patients needed a healing touch to recover fast physically as well as psychologically. Most of the patients were suffering from a feeling of loneliness during isolation and our yoga instructors became their companions during that time.” (UNI)