Abstract

The COVID 19 is a recent condition due to the coronavirus sar-cov2 which started in Wuhan at December 2019 and spread all over the word to cause one of the most serious pandemic in the human history as it declare by the WHO as pandemic on February 2020. 78 patients with the confirmation of COVID 19 were included ( done by PCR of both nasopharyngeal & oropharyngeal swabs or by non-contrast chest CT, for all the platelets count were done at admission & on discharge & to see the relation with age , stay in hospital , days for symptoms resolution , RCU need & death , the results show that the platelets increment show more in discharge patients with mean features of recovery in both CT & PCR +ve patients but not predict mortality or need for RCU admission

Key words: Platelet, coronavirus, Wuhan, thrombocytopenia