Is nasal congestion and coughing with phlegm a novel coronavirus pneumonia?

Nasal congestion and cough with sputum are symptoms of novel coronavirus pneumonia, but not all novel coronavirus pneumonia will have these symptoms, such as nasal congestion, which only a small percentage of people will have. Most patients with novel coronavirus pneumonia will have fever, dry cough, and malaise. Some patients will have decreased taste and smell, and some will have symptoms of enteritis, such as diarrhea, and very few will have eye symptoms, such as conjunctivitis. In addition to clinical symptoms, the new coronavirus pneumonia usually has normal or reduced white blood cells in routine blood tests, usually with reduced lymphocytes, elevated C-reactive protein and sedimentation, normal calcitoninogen, and multiple small patchy shadows or interstitial changes in lung imaging, usually in the outer lung zone.