Brits should now self isolate and assume they have Covid-19 if they suffer from a loss of smell after warnings tens of thousands of cases are being missed.
Loss of smell and possibly taste has been added to fever and a persistent cough as the crucial early warning signs to assume you have the bug.
UK guidance states from today you should self-isolate for seven days if you develop any of the three symptoms. The change in official UK guidance comes after independent experts warned up to 70,000 people may currently have the virus but are going undiagnosed.
Brits suffering from loss of taste and smell may have been unknowingly infected friends and family and increasing the UK outbreak.