COVID-19’s official list is updated and symptoms has been expanded to include another nine signs of a coronavirus infection.

UK Health Security Agency has updated new guidance lists symptoms which includes muscle pain, sore throat and diarrhea.

This move comes after more than two years into this pandemic, and just days after free testing ended in England.

Meanwhile, NHS cautions many of the new symptoms “are very similar” to colds and flu.

The original symptoms of a COVID-19 infection that were recognized in the UK were: fever, new continuous cough and loss of sense of smell or taste

It was said from the early days of COVID pandemic that this trio was just the tip of this infection. The World Health Organization and other countries, including the US, have used a longer list of symptoms for some time.

There has been debate in the UK about precisely which symptoms should be recognized for.

Headache is a known symptom of COVID, but we might not want to test everybody with one, as there are so many other causes.

Fever, cough or loss of sense of smell or taste were settled on, because they were either present in most of the cases, almost exclusively caused by the virus.

Now the list of symptoms includes a further nine: shortness of breath, feeling tired or exhausted, aching body, headache, sore throat blocked or runny nose, loss of appetite, diarrhea and being sick

UK has made new record for COVID, with 4.9 million people (about one in 13 of us) testing positive for the virus. And free testing for most people in England ended last week.

The NHS says people should stay at home and avoid others only if you have COVID symptoms like high temperature, or if your symptoms are so bad that you are not well enough to work.