China: common symptoms of novel coronavirus patients 2020

According to a medical analysis based on 55,924 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in China published in February 2020, almost 88 percent of the patients had a fever. Dry cough and fatigue were other common symptoms experienced by the infected people.

Breakdown of 55,924 sample patients infected with novel coronavirus COVID-19 in China as of February 22, 2020, by symptom

Characteristic	Share of patients
Fever	87.9%
Dry cough	67.7%
Fatigue	38.1%
Sputum production*	33.4%
Shortness of breath	18.6%
Muscle pain/joint pain	14.8%
Sore throat	13.9%
Headache	13.6%
Chills	11.4%
Nausea/vomiting	5%
Nasal congestion	4.8%
Diarrhoea	3.7%

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WHO; OWID Use Ask Statista Research Service

Release date

March 2020

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Region

China

Survey time period

as of February 22, 2020

Number of respondents

55,924 patients

Supplementary notes

*Sputum is a thick mucus coughed up from the lungs.
Symptoms in fewer than one percent were not shown.
The source does not specify the release date. The publication date stated here is the date of access.

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