"Figure 8: The percentage of people testing positive for COVID-19 when reporting having a cough, fever, or loss of taste or smell was higher than for those not reporting these symptoms","" "Estimated percentage of those ever testing positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the study, by cough, fever, or loss of taste or smell on the day of the test, England, 26 April to 30 May 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. These statistics refer to infections reported in the community, by which we mean private households. These figures exclude infections reported in hospitals, care homes or other institutional settings." "Unit","%" "","" "","% testing positive for COVID-19","Lower confidence limit","Upper confidence limit" "Individuals reporting a cough and/or fever and/or loss of taste/smell on the day of the test","7.69","3.90","13.35" "Individuals reporting no cough or fever or loss of taste/smell on the day of the test","0.36","0.29","0.45"