South African doctor who raised alarm about Omicron variant says symptoms are 'unusual but mild'

On Nov. 18, when four family members all tested positive for COVID-19 with complete exhaustion, she informed the country’s vaccine advisory committee.

Dr. Coetzee, who was briefing other African medical associations on Saturday, made clear her patients were all healthy and she was worried the new variant could still hit older people — with co-morbidities like diabetes or heart disease — much harder.Article content The B.1.1.529 variant, now called “omicron”, was first identified in Botswana on Nov. 11. It has now been detected in the U.K. as well as South Africa, Israel, the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Belgium.

Travellers queue at an area for a PCR COVID-19 tests at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on Nov. 27 after several countries banned flights from South Africa following the discovery of a new COVID-19 variant Omicron.U.K. officials are busy scouring testing databases for any further sign of the omicron variant, not least because there were many South Africans in the Twickenham area of south west London for the England and South Africa match last Saturday.

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