How to tell the difference between a cold and COVID-19

The common cold:

Generally caused by factors such as catch a cold, tired, mainly caused by common acute respiratory viral infections, such as nasal virus, respiratory syncytial virus, the symptoms of nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose, fever, cough, headache, etc., but no more than physical strength, appetite, rarely appears obvious headache, muscle aches, such as whole body discomfort, symptom is lighter, more can heal itself. The common cold usually has no obvious fever, and even the fever is usually a moderate fever, usually 1-3 days can be reduced to normal, taking antipyretic medicine is effective.

Symptoms of COVID-19:

COVID-19 is an infectious disease, and confirmed COVID-19 patients and asymptomatic infected people are the main sources of infection.

The main transmission routes of COVID-19 are respiratory droplets and close contact. Clinically, fever, dry cough, fatigue as the main manifestations, a few patients with nasal congestion, runny nose, diarrhea and other symptoms. Mild patients only showed low fever, fatigue, and no signs of pneumonia.