COVID-19 can cause various different symptoms. The illness is different in different people. In many cases, infected people have only mild symptoms or no symptoms at all.

Frequent symptoms:

• cough
• runny nose
• fever with a temperature above 38^o C
• hoarseness, sore throat
• headache and aching limbs
• impaired senses of taste and smell
• breathlessness, respiratory distress

After the acute illness, some people experience further symptoms such as exhaustion (fatigue), nausea, concentration problems, dizziness, and other neurological symptoms. This is known as post-COVID-19 syndrome or long COVID.

A summary of COVID-19 symptoms and a wealth of additional information is available from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).

Information about COVID-19 is available in different languages from the World Health Organization (WHO) and in English from Pfizer Inc.

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