Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

It comes after a man who had hiccups for several days tested positive for COVID in the US, despite having no other symptoms of the deadly bug.

According to reports, the 62-year-old patient, from Chicago, was admitted to the hospital in April where doctors also noted that he had unexplained weight loss.

According to a case report, published in the American Journal of Emergency medicine, the man had diabetes but wasn’t suffering from a fever, or a sore throat.

But he had been experiencing persistent hiccups for four days, and when tested for coronavirus his results came back positive.

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