Omicron variant is said to cause cancer by a doctor who has treated Omicron patients. “unusual”You may experience intense fatigue or high heart rate.
Angelique Coetzee runs a Pretoria-based private clinic and said that it doesn’t cause loss of taste or smell as previous versions of Covid.
“Their symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before,” she said.
“We had one very interesting case, a kid about six years old, with a temperature and a very high pulse rate, and I wondered if I should admit her. Two days later, I was able to follow up and she was doing much better.
“What we have to worry about is older, unvaccinated people. If they are not vaccinated, we are going to see many people with a severe form of the disease.”
Omicron, also known as B.1.1.529, may be more transmissible, and may be able avoid vaccines.
It contains 50 genetic mutations. Most of these have been identified in prior variants. There are also three new changes.
Prof Lawrence Young, of Warwick Medical School, said: “This new variant is very worrying. It is the most highly mutated variant we have seen.
“This variant carries some changes we’ve seen previously in other variants but never all together in one virus. It also has novel mutations that we’ve not seen before.
“Some of the mutations that are similar to changes we’ve seen in other variants of concern are associated with enhanced transmissibility and with partial resistance to immunity.
“We need laboratory studies to determine whether the antibodies induced by current vaccines are able to block infection with this variant.”
Today, a third super-strain was found in the UK.
After traveling from South Africa, where the variant originated, the person tested positive.
NEW COVID RESTRICTIONS
The individual is not currently in the UK. However, the UK Health Security Agency is performing urgent testing in areas where they were likely to be infectious.
Officials said that this includes central London’s Westminster.
Ministers announced that a number of Covid restrictions will be reintroduced in an effort to stop high-speed transmission.
This includes thereturn of mandatory mask-wearing in shops and public transport from Tuesday.
Passengers arriving in Britain on Tuesday morning will need to undergo a PCR test. It is expected that they will be able to self-isolate until negative results.
Contacts with Omicron-like symptoms will need to be isolated for 10 days regardless of whether they have been vaccinated.
The government was so moved by this variant, it added 10 African countries to the UK’s travel red list – South Africa and Namibia, Botswana and Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Angola Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Lesotho, Botswana and Eswatini.
Plans do not include Plan B. However, Health Secretary Sajid Javid insists that it is. “nowhere near”It was time to reintroduce social ditancing rules, work-from-home guidance, and advised Brits to prepare for Christmas as usual.
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