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flu or COVID-19? With the change in temperature in different regions of Brazil, many people have this doubt. after every thing , increase in cases From new corona virus He’s worried, but can easily be mistaken for a bad cold or flu—especially if your vaccinations are up to date. Yesterday, the country recorded 24 new deaths.

In this way, they totaled 677,021 since the beginning of the pandemic. To avoid confusion and questions, the ‘BBC News’ I searched Salvador PeruPublic Health Specialist and Researcher in Pharmaceutical Epidemiology at visabiowhich is a biomedical research institution in Spain. The main differences between Corona virus disease It’s the flu.

Covid can have all kinds of symptoms. It can range from having no symptoms at all to having some flu-like symptoms. At this time, we are seeing more problems with dry cough and decreased smell (loss of smell), although there are cases as well. Likewise, it can cause anything like mucus in the nose and something like a cold.”He said.

In general, the Corona virus disease It develops a typical picture of respiratory viruses, with some peculiarity in some cases. Still in second place PeruHowever, the vast majority of sufferers don’t realize this until they go to the hospital for a scheduled surgery: In fact, between 20 and 25% of people have no symptoms.concluded the specialist.