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A sudden loss of smell or taste could mean you have the coronavirus, even if you have no other symptoms.

Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.A sudden loss of smell, known as anosmia or hyposmia, could be a symptom of the coronavirus, even if patients experience no other symptoms, according to leading Rhinologists in the UK.

Young people could be more likely to carry the disease without presenting the more commonly-recognised symptoms of fever and coughing, they believe. "In South Korea, where testing has been more widespread, 30% of patients testing positive have had anosmia as their major presenting symptom in otherwise mild cases," President of the British Rhinological Society Professor, Clare Hopkins, and the president of the British Association of Otorhinolaryngology, Professor Nirmal Kumar,The professors said that many patients around the world, who have tested positive for COVID-19, are only presenting the symptoms of loss of smell and taste,...

The lack of other recognised symptoms in these cases may mean they are unlikely to be tested and isolated, meaning they could be contributing to the rapid spread of the disease around the world.

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