Viral clearance
Patients were mostly home quarantined and opted to come for follow-up RT-PCR at their convenience. Hence this is more indicative of the confirmation date rather than the actual time to negativity which could be earlier. The mean time taken to become COVID-19 negative was 13.92 days (95% confidence interval [CI] 12.85–14.99) in Group A (Kaplan–Meier survival analysis of the proportion of patients: 