Abstract
<p class="abstract">COVID-19 infections is known to have a multitude of clinical presentations, and newer clinical complications continue to be reported from all over the world. It is now widely known that the diabetic patients with poor glycemic control are associated with a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 infection. They are also at a high risk for developing secondary bacterial or fungal, co infections because of the complex interplay of multiple risk factors , necessitating an intensive medical care and monitoring in them. We are presenting a case of mucormycosis in a diabetic patient with moderate COVID pneumonia that presented to us as orbital cellulitis and the events that followed. There have been very few documented cases of mucormycosis in COVID infected diabetic patients so far during this pandemic and we also present a literature review of the same.</p>
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