The doctor who raised the alarm over the Omicron variant said patients had shown ‘unusual but mild’ symptoms. Dr Angelique Coetzee was alerted to the possibility of a new variant when locals near her Pretoria practice had symptoms that did not fit the ‘traditional’ mould of Covid.
None of them suffered from a loss of taste or smell - both of which are part of the globally recognised symptoms of coronavirus.
Instead, patients suffered from the likes of intense fatigue and a six-year-old child with a high pulse rate, the Mirror reports.
Dr Coetzee, who chairs South Africa’s Medical Association, said: “Their symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before.”On November 18, when four family members all tested positive
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