A group of 140 doctors called on the chief medical officer in Britain to expand the list of symptoms of the Coronavirus to include an addition: a runny nose, sore throat and headache, to the official list of Corona virus in Britain, so that those with these symptoms isolate themselves immediately before transmitting the infection to others.
According to a report by the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, the British Health Authority has identified only three warning signs of the disease, which are fever, coughing or loss of taste and smell, but the World Health Organization and officials in the United States are aware of other less common symptoms such as muscle pain and diarrhea, which prompted a group From 140 family physicians in London to expand the number of known symptoms.
They emphasized that many patients with milder signs did not even think about the possibility of contracting the virus and did not isolate themselves when they were contagious, and doctors add that they should encourage patients to take a test when feeling these symptoms, as the test is only available for those who have symptoms. The three are known.
Dr. Alex Sohall, General Physician at Tower Hamlets and Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Queen Mary University, led the letter to the British Medical Journal, stressing the need to add other symptoms such as a runny nose, sore throat, hoarseness, muscle pain, fatigue and headache as signs of infection with the virus. Corona.
What are the most common symptoms of corona virus?
Fatigue, headache, loss of sense of smell, persistent cough, sore throat, fever, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, hoarse voice, diarrhea, extreme tiredness, delirium.
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