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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Health
Gemma Jones

Covid symptom 'more common' than loss of smell as new wave hits UK

Experts have warned that a ‘devastating’ covid wave is about to break over winter in the UK.

A drop in testing and insufficient monitoring of new immune-evasive subvariants could lead to a wave of infections. And, with a new wave of the pandemic virus comes a new variety of symptoms.

A new dominant symptom is being reported - with two-thirds of all people now reporting having a sore throat when they first contract covid as opposed to a loss of smell or a fever.

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