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Top three 'classic' Covid symptoms change with Omicron as 'virus evolves'

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The three Covid symptoms first identified at the start of the pandemic are less common, according to one Covid expert. It's been almost three years since the pandemic started, so you may already know the three 'classic' Covid symptoms: fever, cough and loss of taste or smell.

However, UK epidemiologist and professor Tim Spector says the 'virus has evolved' causing the the symptoms to change with it.

The covid expert said 'only half' of people on the Zoe Covid Symptom App are showing the three main Covid symptoms.Prof Spector is the co-creator of the ZOE which has been tracking symptoms of the virus since March 2020.

Some 480 million reports on the ZOE app show a significant trend toward different symptoms than earlier in the pandemic. "Importantly, we found that only half of people with COVID had any of the classic three symptoms of fever, cough or loss of sense of smell," Prof Spector wrote in a blog post on newsGP, a news site for Australian GPs.

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