I'm so confused by this whole Coronavirus thing and then advice to self isolate if you have a high temp and a continuous cough. But now I'm hearing about all sorts of people who have had mild to no symptoms. I've been feeling slightly unwell for almost a week. Really nothing major. On Wednesday I left work early because I just felt so exhausted and like I was coming down with a cold. From Thursday onwards I woke up with a loose bowel movement and developed a stuffy nose and a slight cough from Friday. If I took a sudeofed I felt fine for the rest of the day aside from a mild cough which occurred maybe once an hour. Over the weekend the cough got a bit worse. I felt a bit of tightening in my chest, but nothing major. No temperature or anything. The cough is starting to get better now. Still coughing a few times an hour as I was over the weekend. But my question is - how does one define a 'continuous cough'?
I'm pretty certain that it's just a cold - my daughter whose at nursery has had similar and has pretty much been ill with colds and runny noses since she started in October.
I'm not quite sure what to do. No one else in my house has a cough (aside from my daughter which is quite mild). Am I meant to self isolate even with just a slight cough most likely from a cold? It's such a grey area. I don't want to have to if it's not corona. But obviously they're not testing us for it if we don't go to hospital. 🤦🏼♀️