Cutaneous Manifestations of COVID‐19: Diagnosis and Management

A 48yearold female health care worker of European descent, who was otherwise well and on no regular medications, developed cough symptoms the day before testing positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19). Five days after after symptom onset, she developed rhinorrhoea followed by loss of taste and smell (anosmia and ageusia). On day 7, she developed headaches, palpations, subjective fevers and an eruption on the dorsum of her hands; on day 8, the eruption became pruritic and had spread to her elbows, the dorsum of her feet, and chest (Box 1). The pruritus was successfully treated with an oral antihistamine on the advice of a dermatologist after topical moisturiser failed. The rash completely resolved by day 12 without further management, while other influenzalike symptoms remained. The loss of taste and smell persisted for ten weeks.