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Medical chiefs today added a new loss of smell or taste as a third official symptom for detecting coronavirus.
They believe it will mean that two per cent more cases of the killer infection will be picked up.
But the Government is facing claims that it has acted too slowly on expanding the list of symptoms and is in fact missing up to 70,000 people who currently have Covid-19.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam announced this morning that the Government’s “basic case definition” for Covid-19 will now be a new continuous cough, or fever, or anosmia (a loss or changed sense of normal smell or taste).
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