Symptoms of coronavirus

The COVID-19 virus is rapidly spreading all over the World as well as in Armenia and affects different people in different ways.  COVID-19 is a respiratory disease and most infected people will develop mild to moderate symptoms and recover without requiring special treatment.  People who have underlying medical conditions (chronic diseases such as cardiovascular, diabetes, pulmonary, etc.), people with disabilities, and those over 60 years old have a higher risk of developing severe disease and death.

Common symptoms include:

• Fever
• tiredness
• dry cough

Other symptoms include:

• shortness of breath
• aches and pains sore throat
• change of smell and taste and very few people will report diarrhea
• nausea or a runny nose