Coronavirus
New Symptoms Have Been Added to the Official COVID List
The UK Health Security Agency’s updated guidance now lists symptomsincluding a sore throat, muscle pains and diarrhoea.
The move comes more than two years into the pandemic, and just days after free testing ended in England.
However, the NHS cautions that many of the new symptoms “are very similar” to those for colds and flu.
The original signs of a Covid infection that were recognised in the UK were:
- fever
- new continuous cough
- loss of sense of smell or taste
It was known from the early days of the pandemic that this trio was just the tip of the iceberg. The World Health Organization and other countries, including the US, have used a longer list of symptoms for some time.
