New research on the deadly coronavirus is suggesting that a sudden loss of smell, known as anosmia, is one of the first signs of a COVID-19 infection in just under a third of patients who tested positive for the disease. In addition, a number of those infected also claimed to have suffered a loss of taste as well as the anosmia.
According to Science Alert, leading ear, nose, and throat doctors in the United Kingdom — including the president of the British Rhinological Society Professor, Clare Hopkins, and the president of the British Association of Otorhinolaryngology, Nirmal Kumar — discovered the connection when studying the early symptoms of coronavirus patients in South Korea, China, and Italy.
“In South Korea, where testing has been more widespread, 30 percent of patients testing positive have had anosmia as their major presenting symptom in otherwise mild cases,” the two said in a joint statement.
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