Since the introduction of the Omicron version, doctors and medical experts have been brushing out the hype built around the new version.
Initially, when the new coronavirus variant was first detected in South Africa, Dr Angelique Coetzee, president of the South African Medical Association, suggested that the disease was mild and that people who were infected had no severe symptoms.
With mild fever, fatigue, body aches and no signs of loss of smell or taste from a ‘scratchy throat’, the doctor listed symptoms that did not seem serious.
However, WHO expert Bruce Aylward warned strictly against “jumping to the conclusion that it is a mild disease”.
He urges people to take the version more seriously rather than dismissing it as ‘mild’ and going through the holiday season without any measure and vigilance.
“If we go into a season like we’re going to now when a lot of people want to get together for the holiday season, and we have a more contagious virus, we set ourselves up for a very dangerous situation. can,” he warned.
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