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WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF COVID-19?

Some people infected with the virus have no symptoms. When the virus does cause symptoms, common ones include: low-grade fever, body aches, coughing, nasal congestion, sore throat. COVID-19 can occasionally cause more severe symptoms like: high fever, severe cough, shortness of breath – which often indicates pneumonia. One of the symptoms of COVID-19 is shortness of breath. What does that mean? Shortness of breath refers to unexpectedly feeling out of breath, or winded. But when should you worry about shortness of breath? If you find that you are ever breathing harder or having trouble getting air each time you exert yourself, you always need to call your doctor. Meanwhile, it’s important to remember that if shortness of breath is your only symptom, without a cough or fever, something other than COVID-19 is the likely problem. Coronavirus Resource Center: Harvard health Publishing, Harvard Medical School* WHO SHOULD BE TESTED Testing for now, even in private labs will be prioritised for individuals that fulfill epidemiological and clinical case definitions and only if referred by a doctor. Due to critical reagent shortages, COVID19 (SARS-CoV-2) testing will be restricted to patients with travel to areas where there has been sustained person to person transmission with in the last 14 days and seriously ill or hospitalised with severe pneumonia, or cough, sore throat, shortness of breath or measured fever of 38 °C. Testing will also be reserved for health care workers who attended patients with confirmed COVID19 (SARS-CoV-2) tests.