In each variant the symptoms of the infection and the subsequent degree of infection varies. However there are certain common symptoms of the COVID disease which have been found across all the infections caused by different variants.
As per the data released by national health agencies, the common symptoms of COVID are fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting and diarrhea.
The symptoms that a human body shows after being exposed to the virus depends on the way the body’s immunity reacts to the pathogen.
The classic symptoms of COVID infection include fever, cough, fatigue, and loss of sense of smell and taste. Severe symptoms linked to the disease are shortness of breath, chest pain, low blood oxygen levels in the body and difficulty in breathing.
Most of the COVID symptoms overlap with the symptoms of common cold and flu and this has been seen in the infection caused by all variants of the virus.
