The nine new symptoms are as follows:

Shortness of breath
Feeling tired or exhausted
An aching body
A headache
A sore throat
A blocked or runny nose
Loss of appetite
Diarrhoea
Feeling sick or being sick

The release of the updated list comes just days after the government ended its free universal Covid-19 testing scheme, meaning most people now need to pay for a test to confirm they have the virus.

This is despite the fact that Covid-19 infections are estimated to have hit an all-time high in the UK, with new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggesting that almost 5 million people had the virus last week.

Covid-19: the 9 new symptoms that have been added to the UK’s official list