How do I know if I have COVID-19?
WHO has produced definitions for suspected and probable cases of COVID-19 which you can view here and I've summarised them below Covid-19 is a disease caused by a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 suspected case : A : acute respiratory illness: fever + cough or shortness of breath and return from high risk country within the last 14 days B : acute respiratory illness: fever + cough or shortness of breath and contact with person with confirmed COVID-19 within the last 14 days C : patient with unexplained severe acute respiratory illness in hospital. probable case : A : unexplained severe acute respiratory illness and inconclusive test results B : unexplained severe acute respiratory illness and gtesting not available Confirmed case : blood tests detect the virus or antibody to the virus; virus may be detected before symptoms, antibodies are detected five days after the onset of symptoms. Since carriers of the virus may have no