What symptoms might I have with COVID-19?

Common symptoms

	Most people with COVID-19 experience mild symptoms. The most commonly reported symptoms include: fever fatigue loss of taste and/or smell respiratory symptoms coughing increased phlegm or sputum.
	Other symptoms associated with COVID-19 can include: headache sore throat mild shortness of breath muscle or joint pains runny nose chills intermittent nausea/vomiting intermittent diarrhoea.1

Severe symptoms

If you develop any of the following symptoms (or any other symptoms recorded in the severe symptoms section of your My COVID-19 action plan), call (or ask someone else to call) emergency services on 000 immediately. Tell the phone operator that you have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and have severe symptoms, and that you need an ambulance.

The following symptoms could indicate more severe or serious illness, so they should be treated in a hospital:* 

• worsening shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• blue lips or face
• pain or pressure in the chest
• cold and clammy, or pale and mottled, skin
• fainting or collapse
• being more confused
• becoming difficult to wake up
• little or no urine output – less urine than usual, even though you have been drinking lots of fluid
• coughing up blood.²
• your oxygen level is 92%* or less when you test using the pulse oximeter, even if you feel okay (see how to check this in the next section of the guide)
• respiratory rate of more than 30 beats per minute*
• heart rate staying at or above 120 beats per minute*

*Your individual age and general health may mean these symptoms are not all relevant or may need to be adapted. If you are managing your COVID-19 with assistance from a GP your GP might also tell you to look out for other severe symptoms that have been added to your My COVID-19 action plan, and will update the action plan.