The Telegraph: Omicron strain shows two unusual symptoms

The Omicron covid strain has two unexpected symptoms, according to information from South Africa.

As reported The Telegraph, doctors say that people with omicron have lower back pain and sore throat. Moreover, these patients are 23% less likely to end up in hospitals (in comparison with those infected with the “delta” strain). The conclusions were made by physicians based on an analysis of approximately 78 thousand cases of the disease.

At the same time, doctors emphasize, although more often the omicron proceeds in a mild form, this does not mean that it is less dangerous. Most likely, the situation was influenced by several levels of immunity acquired both after illness and after vaccination.

Recall that a new strain of coronavirus was detected in November in South Africa and Botswana. Those infected complained of a strong feeling of fatigue, but they did not have a loss of taste or smell.

The Inspectorate of the World Health Organization (WHO), which visited the homeland of the coronavirus in China, in its report called the hypothesis of the natural onset of a new disease the most likely. The source of the pandemic was most likely transmitted to humans from bats through an intermediary animal. More details – here… Other Russian experts, such as the epidemiologist of Rospotrebnadzor Alexander Gorelov, believe that to prove or disprove the artificial or natural origin of the pathogen COVID impossible.

At the same time, Virologist, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pyotr Chumakov in an interview “Radio Russia“Admitted that the omicron strain was created artificially for” analytical “or other purposes in order to” quickly wrap up the pandemic. ” “I believe it is so. That these are the British. We decided to end the pandemic now, because now the time has come for some decisive changes in the world, ”Chumakov noted. He suggested that “they collected all these mutations in one strain, moreover, they also introduced an insert of three amino acids, which are characteristic of the coronavirus season,” and this explains that the strain was “super-weakened.”

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova said that the new omicron coronavirus strain was confirmed in 16 out of 177 citizens who arrived in Russia from South Africa.