Losing your sense of smell

Reports have been going around saying that coronavirus victims are losing their sense of smell. As this was not previously reported by china, people from other countries are getting it. For example, 60 year old Sian Griffiths, like many others in the UK, did not have a cough or fever so she didn’t call the health line. But after a few days she realised "I tried sticking my nose right into a jar of coffee -- nothing. Whisky -- nothing. Frying bacon -- not a hint.” Scientists are considering the loss of sense of smell as one of the symptoms for coronavirus. But the experts say that COVID-19 isn’t the only thing that could cause the lost of your smell

"With the pandemic currently going on, if you are young or old and have an unexplained smell loss come on quite quickly, even in the setting of minimal respiratory symptoms, you should be highly suspicious that you might have acquired infection with coronavirus or another respiratory virus," said Richard Harvey, vice president of the Australia and New Zealand Rhinologic Society.

Source ABC News