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Since the onset of the Omicron variant, doctors and medical experts have been calling out the hype built around the new variant.
Initially, when the new coronavirus variant was first detected in South Africa, Dr Angelique Coetzee, Chairperson of the South African Medical Association, suggested that the disease was mild and people who were infected did not report any severe symptoms.
From mild fever, fatigue, body ache and ‘scratchy throat’ to no signs of loss of smell or taste, the doctor listed down symptoms that did not seem serious.
However, WHO expert Bruce Aylward has strictly warned against “jumping to a conclusion that this is a mild disease.”
He urges people to take the variant more seriously rather than dismissing it off as ‘mild’ and walking into the holiday season without any measures and vigilance.
“If we go into a season like we’re going into now when a lot of people want to get together for the holiday season, and we have a more transmissible virus, we could be setting ourselves up for a very dangerous situation,” he warned.
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