Coronavirus symptoms: Persistent hiccups and three other uncommon symptoms of COVID-19

Initially, people infected with coronavirus only showed symptoms like fever, chills, breathlessness, body ache and headache. But as researchers are getting to know more about the virus, they are reporting new symptoms that some patients may develop.

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 8 lakhs lives and infected around 23 lakhs people worldwide. The most common symptoms seen in people infected with the virus are much like flu symptoms including breathlessness.

Here are the five unusual symptoms of COVID 19 to watch out for:

Two COVID-19 patients in the US have shown hiccups as their only major symptom. In research, experts say hiccups can be a very rare sign of COVID-19 infection, but it's still very early to say anything concrete about it. A lot more research is required to find the relation between COVID-19 infection and persistent hiccups.

Hair loss is also an uncommon symptom of COVID-19 infection. A new study highlighted how some people reported hair loss post COVID recovery. In fact there have been multiple researchers that show COVID-19 patients have reported hair loss two months after recovery.

Some teenagers and young adults infected with COVID-19 have experienced painful red and purple rashes on their toes and fingers. This rash is just like frostbite. Experts have named it as the COVID- toe.

Dermatologist in Italy assessed 88 people who had COVID infection. They found that 20 per cent of these people had some skin related symptoms. These skin symptoms were like red rashes, chickenpox-like lesions and widespread hives. Some of these rashes even looked like superficial clotting.