Analysis of the symptoms of patients with novel coronavirus pneumonia shows that some patients do have a tickling throat and cough. Flu, influenza, pharyngitis, bronchitis, bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or some nasopharyngeal diseases such as nasopharyngitis or even nasopharyngeal cancer can cause itchy throat and cough. Therefore, it is not possible to diagnose or rule out novel pneumonia simply from the symptoms. The gold standard for diagnosing or ruling out novel pneumonia is nucleic acid in respiratory secretions, and a positive or negative nucleic acid test can be the gold standard for diagnosing or ruling out novel coronavirus pneumonia. If you want to diagnose or rule out the disease, you should have a nucleic acid test of the respiratory secretions to determine whether it is novel coronavirus pneumonia.