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Background: The ongoing mutation of the COVID-19 virus causes an increase in transmission and a decrease in vaccine effectiveness. COVID-19 cases since the end of 2021 have continued to increase, and data on the characteristics of patients with confirmed COVID-19 at Sanglah hospital for this period is not yet available. Therefore, this study aims to determine the characteristics of confirmed COVID-19 patients who received treatment at Sanglah hospital from January to February 2022.Methods: This study is a descriptive study using a cross-sectional approach taken from medical record data.Results: There were 276 COVID-19 patient subjects with an average age of 53 years, consisting of 51.1% male and 48.9% female. Most occupations are private employees, 29.0%. The 39.5% of patients had mild symptoms, and 5.8% had critical symptoms. Cough (51.8%) and fever (40.6%) were the main clinical symptoms, and chronic kidney disease was the most common comorbidity at 16.7%. As many as 46.0% of COVID-19 patients have received vaccines at least 2x, and 2.9% of patients are previous COVID-19 survivors.Conclusions: The characteristics of confirmed COVID-19 patients who received treatment at Sanglah hospital in January and February 2022 were more male than female, with the most jobs as private employees. Most patients have mild to moderate symptoms with a chief complaint of cough. Almost half of the patients have been vaccinated at least 2x. Most of them are not COVID-19 survivors.

Background: Omicron (B.1.1.529) is a variant of COVID-19 which is first reported from Gauteng Province, South Africa in November 2021. This variant was considered the fifth variant of concern (VOC) by the world health organization (WHO) due to its much faster transmission but with milder clinical manifestations than other COVID-19 variants.Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in Sanglah general hospital, Denpasar, Bali in March 2022. Subjects of this study were all patients who were diagnosed with probable COVID-19 Omicron by having a positive S-gene target failure (SGTF) of a reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test in Sanglah general hospital from January to February 2022. All subjects must age 18 years old or older. Data on patient characteristics and clinical manifestations were obtained from medical record data and analyzed using statistical package for service solution (SPSS) for windows version 25.Results: A total of 79 probable COVID-19 Omicron patients were analyzed in this study. Most of them were elderly who age more than 65 years old (30.4%), male (50.6%), and work as an entrepreneur (24.1%). The majority of probable COVID-19 Omicron patients were symptomatic (89.9%) with the most common clinical manifestation found was cough (54.9%). Other clinical manifestations found were shortness of breath (50.7%), fever (38.0%), fatigue (21.1%), runny nose (11.3%), sore throat (8.5%), nausea and vomit (2.8%), headache (1.4%), diarrhea (1.4%), and anosmia (1.4%).Conclusions: The clinical manifestations of probable COVID-19 Omicron patients vary but most of them were classified as mild symptoms.

Introduction: Relapse pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a TB patient who has previously received TB treatment, and has been declared cured or complete treatment, was re-diagnosed with positive smear TB based on swab examination or culture. In Indonesia there are many cases of repeat treatment. 70% of them are relapse cases. So that research on the characteristics of pulmonary TB patients relapse is important. Method: This research is a cross sectional descriptive study where the source of the data comes from secondary data, namely medical records of patients with pulmonary TB patients relapse in pulmonary outpatient clinics at Sanglah General Hospital period May 2017 until September 2018. Result: The results of this study showed that there were 40 patients proven to have pulmonary TB relapse. Most of the patients have ages of 50 to 59 years (25.0%), male sex (55.0%), last education in high school (57.5%), as many as 27.5% of them work as entrepreneurs and 27.5% do not work , the range of BMI in relapse pulmonary TB patients is 13-31 kg / m2 to 28.04 kg / m2 with an average of 19.54 + 3.03 kg / m2, the most clinical complaints are cough (80%), the most common comorbidities are pneumonia (15%) and based on thorax X-ray results found that the most finding was a picture of pleural effusion (22.5%). Conclusion: Based on demographic characteristics, relapse pulmonary TB patients were dominated by age + 50 years with male sex, highschool education status, dominant in patients who did not work and had a low BMI. Based on clinical symptoms, coughing up phlegm, coughing up bleeding and chest tightness are common symptoms. Based on the accompanying comorbidities, pneumonia and heart failure that most often accompanying disease. The most common X-ray image found in relapse pulmonary TB patients is the presence of pleural effusion.