Symptoms such as a loss or change to your smell and taste are some of the most well-known symptoms when it comes to Covid.
In addition to this, a fever is also one of the symptoms that you should be looking our for.
However whilst these three are often an indicator as to whether you could have the virus or not, there are other ones you should be on the lookout for that you may not think of.
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It comes as the Mirror reports the three 'common' symptoms may be less common now and it could be all about yours ears with many people who test positive suffering from hearing loss, tinnitus and feeling dizzy.
At present around 2.6 million people estimated to have the infection in the UK, according to the ZOE Health Study, which uses testing and symptom data from millions of participating app users.
The study by the Department of Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts concluded: "Our findings suggest that inner ear infection may underlie COVID-19-associated problems with hearing and balance."
During their work the researchers discovered that both hair cells and Schwann cells of the inner ear express the proteins required for Covid infection, which makes them potential targets.
The findings come after new Covid cases were estimated at 224,000 a day as of Tuesday - this is up 27 per cent on the 176,000 new daily cases a week earlier.
Last week’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimate has the total infected at just over a million - one in 60 people - but this is now almost three weeks out of date.
Prof Tim Spector, of King’s College London and co-founder of the Covid ZOE app, told the Mirror: “We believe that the ZOE data shows we are in an autumn wave.
“Covid is currently affecting four per cent of the UK population and the trend is going up. If rates continue as they are, we are set to reach the same heights we did in the summer.
“Many of us are poorly right now as we are also seeing lots of colds. Three times as many people have colds compared to Covid.
“Confusingly, both seem to present with a sore throat in the early days, but if you are sneezing this could be a good sign and mean you have a cold, not Covid.
“If anyone wakes up with a sore throat, I’d recommend checking with a test just to be sure.”
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