Abstract
The present outbreak of COVID-19 started in December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in Hubei province in China. The World health organization labeled the disease a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. The disease is caused by a virus called severe acute respiratory coronavirus-2 (SARS CoV-2). The individuals may remain asymptomatic or present with symptoms of infection. The common presenting symptoms include but are not limited to fever, dry or productive cough, malaise. Contrary to the typical clinical presentation of COVID-19, the patients may present with non-specific symptoms of olfactory or gustatory origin. The olfactory symptoms include hyposmia or anosmia. Physicians may be vigilant to screen and isolate patients with sudden onset hyposmia or anosmia, an early indication of infection that will minimize person-to-person transmission and will contain the virus spread. Keywords: COVID-19, SARS CoV-2, Hyposmia, Anosmia, Physician.
Highlights
In December 2019, many cases of pneumonia of unknown cause were reported in the Wuhan city of Hubei province of China
The disease is caused by a virus called severe acute respiratory coronavirus-2 (SARS CoV-2)
Latter on the virus identified for the disease was severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2)
Summary
In December 2019, many cases of pneumonia of unknown cause were reported in the Wuhan city of Hubei province of China. Considering the smell disorder as one of the early presentations of SARS CoV-2 infection, the RT-PCR requested and a nasopharyngeal swab taken on the same day with the advice of home isolation till the outcome of the test. The patient called the primary care physician with a history of a mild headache, sore throat, malaise, and persistence of the loss of smell. The patient informed her brother’s status that he has a positive COVDI-19 test. The timeline of the patient’s events is shown in figure-1
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