Main symptoms

The main symptoms of coronavirus are:

• a high temperature -  this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not ned to measure your temperature)
• a new, continuous cough - this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
• a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste - this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal

Most people with coronavirus have a least 1 of these symptoms.