Your children may get more illnesses as pandemic safety measures are removed and children are around people more often.
Some illnesses that children commonly get, like colds and the flu, have the same symptoms as COVID-19.
- Flu symptoms include fever, headache, muscle pain, sneezing and coughing
- COVID-19 symptoms are the same, and your child might also lose their sense of smell or taste
- With both flus and COVID-19, children can have very few symptoms or more severe illness