Symptoms in patients infected with the novel coronavirus outbreak are dominated by clinical manifestations in the respiratory tract.
The clinical symptoms of patients infected with novel coronavirus are directly related to the severity of the disease after infection. After infection, the symptoms of patients with mild disease are relatively mild, and the patients may manifest respiratory symptoms, which may include dry cough, sore throat, nasal congestion, etc. In severe cases, chest tightness and fever may occur.
Patients with more serious symptoms can appear some systemic symptoms, such as fatigue, joint pain in the limbs, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, etc., at this time it is easy to misdiagnose as gastrointestinal flu or acute gastrointestinal inflammation, clinically it must need to give special attention.
The incubation period of new coronavirus pneumonia is 1~14 days, and most of them are around 3~7 days. For symptoms of fever, patients with mild disease may have low-grade fever, while patients with severe and critical disease may have low-grade fever, and may develop respiratory distress or severe hypoxemia one week after the onset of the disease.
It is recommended to consult the doctor for nucleic acid and other tests when relevant symptoms appear, so as to avoid delaying the disease.
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.