Abstract

Open access Letter Contributors Conceptualisation: MABK. Formal infection. Anosmia is especially Clinicopathological Analysis: MABK, ES, RJAF and AS. Writing, reviewing evident in patients with mild to and editing: MABK, ES, RJAF and AS. All authors read characteristics of 8697 moderate coronavirus disease, in and confirmed the final version. patients with COVID-19 which symptoms related to olfaction Funding The authors have not declared a specific occur as the earliest symptoms in in China: meta- analysis grant for this research from any funding agency in the more than 12% of the cases, leading public, commercial or not- for-profit sectors. to earlier diagnosis of COVID-19. In Competing interests None declared. addition, other presenting symptoms, Patient consent for publication Not required. We have read with great interest the such as eye congestion and other Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; meta- analysis published by Zhu et al neurological manifestations, appear internally peer reviewed. summarising the clinicopathological 7 10 to have been missed in this study. Open access This is an open access article characteristics of Chinese patients Furthermore, Zhang et al reported distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons affected by COVID-19. Though the Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY- NC 4.0) license, drug