“…Among 66 deregulated lncRNA observed in the present study, expression of 17 lncRNA in the same direction has been reported by others; expression of 39 lncRNA has not yet been published and expression 10 lncRNA has been shown to alter in opposite direction (Table S9). Very recently it has been shown that that NEAT1 and MALAT1 are highly expressed in saliva and nasopharyngeal swab samples of COVID-19 patients [118] confirming the result in the present study. Increased in our earlier study [34] HCG11, HIF1A-AS2, LINC00115, LINC00174, LINC00265, LINC00312, LINC00473, LINC00605, LINC00662, LINC00842, MALAT1, MEG3, MEG9, MIAT, NEAT1, RMRP, hTR/TERC, ZNF674-AS1 (20) Decreased in the present study ARIH2OS, C1orf220, DANCR, DGCR5, DHRS4-AS1, DLEU1, DLGAP1-AS1, FAM201A, FLJ20021, FOXN3-AS1, GAS6-AS1, H19, KANSL1-AS1, LINC00526, LINC00707, LINC00880, LINC00893, MIR1915HG, NBR2, NCBP2AS2, PXN-AS1, RASSF8-AS1, SLC22A18AS, SLC25A21-AS1, SNHG32, SNHG5, SNHG9, ST7-AS1, TMEM161B-AS1, TMEM99, TMPO-AS1, TP53TG1, and WAC-AS1 (33) Decreased in our earlier study [34] LINC00488, LINC00857, PART1, and TP53TG1 (4)…”