covid refers to COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019), the English acronym for novel coronavirus pneumonia.
Novel coronavirus pneumonia is caused by a novel coronavirus infection and is an acute infectious pneumonia. Typical symptoms of novel coronavirus pneumonia include fever, dry cough, and malaise, and in more severe cases, acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, and multi-organ failure.
New coronavirus pneumonia is highly contagious and has caused a global epidemic. If you have symptoms related to novel coronavirus pneumonia, you should do the nucleic acid test in time, and if the test result is positive, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time. Do not contact others during the treatment period to avoid contagion.
Tip: “New coronavirus pneumonia” and “new coronavirus pneumonia” mentioned in this article were renamed to “new coronavirus infection” on December 26, 2022, as announced by the National Health Commission.