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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Emma Gill

Doctor shares most common Coronavirus symptoms in children and warns 'any sick child' could have Covid

A leading doctor has shared the most common Covid symptoms among children as she warns that soon parents will have no way of knowing for sure whether their kids have the virus.

Dr Helen Wall, senior responsible officer for Bolton’s Covid-19 vaccination programme, said poorly youngsters being seen by GPs at the moment 'appear to still be those with respiratory symptoms - cough, wheeze shortness of breath and fever'.

But she says there are likely to be many more that they don't see as parents are becoming more at ease with kids being unwell, without necessarily putting it down to Covid.

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