People suffering from a seasonal infection or any kind of allergy and are under regular medication for the same, have a 40% lesser chance of
contracting Covid-19, claims the researchers from the Queen Mary University of London.
According to the study, people under regular medication owing to allergic conditions such as different allergies, fever, eczema, cold, and asthma have a lower risk of being infected by Covid-19.
The research was conducted on 16,000 adults between May 2020 to February 2021 in the UK. It has been found that people with fever and eczema have a 25 percent lesser chance of contracting the disease. Whereas, the risk of contracting Covid-19 infection in people suffering with asthma is about 40 percent less, even if they use steroid inhalers.
In the study, samples from all racial people were collected to know the impact of coronavirus infection on people from different regions. In the findings, it was revealed that Asian descent or people living in densely populated areas are more prone to coronavirus infection.
About the findings, Adrian Martineau, professor at Queen Mary University said, “Asian origin people have almost twice the risk of contracting infection than white British people.”
As the study was conducted before the Delta and Omicron variants were reported. So, the study does not entirely cover the coronavirus disease. The doctors involved in the study stated that a new study will soon be conducted to find out more about the latest variants.