Losing your sense of taste or smell could be a sign of Covid-19 experts warn

A trader wears a protective facemask as Nairobi County health workers fumigate City Market on March 24, 2020. A German shipment of 6 million facemasks on transit through Kenya is missing. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Coronavirus may be more than a respiratory disease as early reported across the world. Losing your sense of taste or smell is a new addition to the signs and symptoms that is being experienced by a number of Covid-19 patients in the country.

The majorly common symptoms known include; fever, dry cough and difficulty in breathing. According to the Chief Administrative Secretary for Health, Dr. Mercy Mwangangi during the daily Covid-19 media briefs on Tuesday, ascertained the new signs and symptoms being exhibited by Covid-19 patients in the country.