Taste and smell gone forever? The anguish of Covid survivors

NEW YORK: Three days after testing positive for Covid-19, “everything tasted like cardboard”, recalls 38-year-old Elizabeth Medina, who lost her sense of taste and smell at the start of the pandemic. A year later, she fears she will never get them back. Medina consulted ear, nose and throat doctors and neurologists, tried various nasal sprays, […]

Fatigue, loss of sense of smell, taste also Covid-19 symptoms

PUTRAJAYA: Fatigue and a loss of the sense of smell and taste are also symptoms of Covid-19, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today. These are in addition to the more common symptoms such as fever, cough, cold, diarrhoea and shortness of breath, he said. “But the symptoms that go unnoticed are fatigue and […]