The issue was discussed in a meeting of the National Task Force on Covid-19 held last Sunday, but no consensus on the matter has been reached yet.
Current Affairs : The administration is pondering to incorporate unexpected loss of taste and smell as a rules for Covid-19 testing, sources said on Friday as India saw a flood in coronavirus occurrences with all out caseload hustling towards the three lakh mark.
The issue was talked about in a gathering of the National Task Force on COVID-19 held last Sunday, yet no agreement on the issue has been reached at this point.
“At the gathering, a few individuals proposed including loss of taste and smell in the qualification standards for COVID-19 testing expressing that few patients have been revealing manifestations like these,” a source in the wellbeing service said.
As indicated by a specialist, despite the fact that the side effect isn’t explicit to COVID-19 as one may experience the ill effects of loss of smell and taste when they have influenza or flu, it could be one of the early indications of the beginning of the ailment and brief recognition may help in early treatment.
The US’ national general wellbeing organization the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had toward the beginning of May joined “another loss of taste or smell” in the rundown of COVID-19 manifestations.
Aditi Mehta 