UK Expands Official List of COVID-19 Symptoms After Scrapping Free Testing

People, some wearing protective face masks, walk over Westminster Bridge, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in London, Britain, on July 4, 2021. Henry Nicholls/Reuters

The United Kingdom has expanded the official list of COVID-19 symptoms to include nine new symptoms, more than two years since the pandemic began.

Monday’s updated guidance from the U.K. Health Security Agency now lists symptoms including a sore throat, muscle aches or pains, and diarrhea.