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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Health
Jessica Knibbs & Gemma Jones

Most reported covid symptom affects the head as cases soar

The number of positive covid patients is on the rise again in the UK.

Experts have warned of a potential fifth wave of the pandemic as coronavirus patients in hospitals has jumped up by more than 2,000 in a week, taking the total to 7,822. The increase is being driven by the recent BA.4 and BA.5 variants, subvariants of Omicron, reported The Mirror.

According to latest figures from the Office of National Statistics, more than 1.7 million people now have the virus in the UK in a shocking 23% increase. But there seems to be one symptom popping up in the majority of cases which affects the head.

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