What are the symptoms of COVID - 19? (a) Fever, dry cough, fatigue (b) Loss of taste (c) Sore throat (d) Breathing difficulties
What are the symptoms of COVID - 19? (a) Fever, dry cough, fatigue (b) Loss of taste (c) Sore throat (d) Breathing difficulties Correct Answer (a), (b), (c) and (d)
The correct answer is (a), (b), (c) and (d).
Key Points
COVID - 19:
- It is a new coronavirus that has been identified for the first time in the city of Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei Province in mainland China.
- It was identified after people developed pneumonia without an evident cause and where current vaccines and treatment methods were not effective.
- Some of the worst-effected countries are Brazil, the US, the UK, Spain, India, and Italy.
- It is considered a novel virus outbreak because the virus is novel (new – not seen earlier).
Symptoms of the new virus include:
- Fever
- Coughing
- Muscle pain
- Fatigue
- Sore throat
- Breathing difficulties
- Loss of taste
- Can cause pneumonia (infection of one or both lungs)
- Can be fatal. Hence, (a), (b), (c) and (d) are correct.
- After a slow onset in an infected body, the disease spreads rapidly in the second week.
Hypoxemia
- Hypoxemia caused due to intensifying lung injury leads to difficulty in breathing and the need for oxygen therapy.
- Other complications include acute kidney injury, septic shock, and virus-induced cardiac injury.
- The incubation period for the virus ranges from 2 to 14 days.
- The incubation period is the time starting from exposure to the virus to developing symptoms.
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