South African doctor says new COVID strain’s symptoms are unusual
The first South African doctor to alert the authorities about patients with the omicron variant has told
They included young people of different backgrounds and ethnicities with intense fatigue and a six-year-old child with a very high pulse rate, she said. None suffered from a loss of taste or smell.
“Their symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before,” said Coetzee, a GP for 33 years who chairs the South African Medical Association.