What are the current symptoms of COVID-19?
In adults the current symptoms include:
• A high temperature
• A new, continuous cough
• A loss or change to the sense of smell or taste
• Shortness of breath
• Feeling tired or exhausted
• An aching body
• A headache
• A sore throat
• A blocked or runny nose
• Loss of appetite
• Diarrhoea
• Feeling or being sick.
As well as symptoms experienced by Covid patients in the short term, they are also experienced by the large number of long Covid patients too.
Long Covid is defined as the prolonged experiencing of Covid symptoms for over 12 weeks; there are currently over two million people with long Covid in the UK according to data from the ONS (Office for National Statistics).
However, while there are around nine different symptoms of COVID-19, this rises steeply for long Covid.
