A sore throat from gagging cannot be identified as a novel coronavirus infection.
The symptom of sore throat is not specific, many causes and diseases can cause sore throat, such as acute tonsillitis, acute pharyngitis, influenza, etc. can cause sore throat. The symptoms of novel coronavirus pneumonia are mainly fever, dry cough and malaise.
Sore throat cannot be used as a criterion for determining infection with novel coronavirus. The diagnosis of novel coronavirus pneumonia needs to be confirmed by combining epidemiologic history, clinical manifestations and laboratory tests. Therefore, novel coronavirus nucleic acid test can be used as one of the indicators for diagnosing novel coronavirus pneumonia.
Any suspected symptoms should be promptly reported to the local community and isolation measures should be taken.
Tips] In this article, the terms “new coronavirus pneumonia” and “new coronavirus pneumonia” were renamed to “new coronavirus infection” on December 26, 2022, as announced by the National Health Commission.