What are the main symptoms of the Delta strain of the Covid-19 coronavirus

The Zoe Covid study is the world’s largest on the virus with more than four million people recording information on symptoms, tests and vaccines.

According to Spector, based on data collected since May, classic signs reported since the start of the pandemic such as loss of smell or taste is also less common now.

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Headaches were at the top of the list of the most common symptoms, and 60% of people who tested positive experienced one, the professional explained.

Runny nose and sore throat were also “climbing this list,” while sneezing was now at number four, although it is often mistaken for hay fever.

A persistent cough was the only original “classic” symptom to make the top five, and the other two, fever and loss of smell and taste, ranked seventh and ninth, respectively.

“It is time for the government, after a year and a half, to change the list of classic symptoms,” he warned.

“We need a much broader flexible approach as the virus changes and populations change,” he added.

Another report found that the rate of coronavirus infection in people under 25 is “five times higher” than in people over 65.

According to Paul Elliot, President of Epidemiology at Imperial College London, speaking to the TV channel Sky News, we discovered that cases doubled every 11 days in the youngest age group.

“We found that the infection rate was much higher among young people, those under 25, and something like an infection rate five times that of people over 65,” he said. -he declares.

They also reported that there were high rates of infection in very young children.