“After suffering COVID-19, many patients develop pronounced residual changes in the lungs in the form of fibrosis.
It can be assumed that this category of patients has an increased risk of developing tuberculosis in the future.
Thus, tuberculosis can occur before, at the same time, or after the transferred COVID-19, "RIA Novosti quotes an excerpt from the tenth version of the recommendations of the Ministry of Health on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19.
It is noted that in order to prevent the development of concomitant pathology and exclude tuberculosis infection at the initial stage of managing a patient with suspected COVID-19, it is necessary to conduct a tuberculosis examination simultaneously with testing for coronavirus.
Earlier it was reported that in Moscow, ten hospitals for patients with COVID-19 will return to normal.