Hyderabad: Chill, loss of appetite, headache and muscle-ache are the new four symptoms of Covid-19, a study by the Imperial College of London, which covered a million affected people, has concluded.
The study was carried out from June 2020 to January 2021. It showed that some of the other symptoms were often not taken into account by the affected.
Experts in India state that they are getting tests done only after they identified symptoms of cough, cold, fever and diarrohea in patients. On investigation, they also find the patients suffered from loss of appetite, muscle ache and headache.
These additional symptoms also occur in diseases like migraine, heart problems and diabetes, and are therefore confusing to the people. “Many of the affected do not even remember, until asked, as to what triggered their illness.”
Senior internal medicine specialist Dr R. Raghu explained, “Fever is often the last symptom in many SARS-CoV-2 patients. Till the onset of fever,…