ABSTRACT
Background-The COVID-19 pandemic, has been continuing for more than 2 years and more than 285 million cases of infection and 5.4 million deaths have been reported worldwide . In post COVID-19 conditions, general fatigue and post-exertional malaise are most common somatic sequelae It has been reported that some patients with COVID develop chronic fatigue syndrome . Hence, the present study has been conducted to investigate the presence of post covid somatic symptoms , their frequency, severity and prevalance of chronic fatigue syndrome in post-COVID-19 patients. METHODS-cross sectional study in the form of an online survey. total of 400 response were finally included after inclusion and exclusion criteria RESULTS: mean age was 36.1+/-7.7 years. the prevalence of CFS to be 12% of our study sample. The most frequent symptom among the patients who met the criteria of CFS was muscle pain (52.1%) followed by postexertional malaise lasting more than 24 hours (47.9%). Less common symptoms were unrefreshing sleep, impaired memory and sore throat CONCLUSION(S): the prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome among the recovered COVID-19 patients was 12% and these patients show moderate to severe symptoms like fatigue, impaired memory, sore throat, tender lymph nodes, muscle pain, pain in several joints, new pattern of headache, unrefreshing sleep and postexertional malaise lasting more than 24 hours.