Seema Kumari
New Delhi: For the last two years, a large number of people died due to Coronavirus infection in the country. At the same time, there is still an atmosphere of fear in the country due to the new variant of Corona Omicron. The new variant of COVID-19 ‘Omicron’ has so far infected people from around 90 countries.
According to experts, this virus is 7 times more spread than the previous variant of Corona. Its symptoms are appearing somewhat different from the previous symptoms of COVID. According to the WHO, the symptoms of this new virus are mild compared to the delta variant. But, to avoid falling prey to this rapidly spreading disease, one should never make the mistake of doing any kind of carelessness.
According to the report, patients infected with Omicron may feel a prick instead of a sore throat. By the way, sore throat and stinging can be somewhat similar. But the pain is felt more when it is in the throat. On the contrary, there is a feeling of burning sensation in the prick of the throat.
Symptoms of dry cough are being seen in patients infected with Omicron. By the way, this symptom has been felt in all the strains of Corona so far.
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Fever is one of the common symptoms of COVID-19. Symptoms ranging from mild to high fever were being seen in the previous variant of Corona. According to Dr Coetzee, Omicron patients are experiencing mild fever which gets better on its own.
According to the South African Department of Health, patients on Omicron experience body aches during the night. Along with this there is a problem of excessive sweating. Due to this, there is so much sweating that even the clothes and bed of the patient get wet.
Many of the symptoms of the previous variant of the corona have not been seen in the patients of Omicron. For example, in this variant, patients are not seeing symptoms like loss of taste and aroma, feeling of stuffy or stuffy nose, high fever, respiratory problems like the previous strain of corona.
Where all the previous variants of Corona used to attack the lungs of the patients. In such a situation, he had respiratory problems. However, the Omicron virus attacks the throat. According to experts, perhaps this virus is not growing by reaching the lungs. So there is no problem related to breathing. In such a situation, the effect of Omicron on the lungs is not much.
Omicron is a fast-growing virus in the throat. But this will reduce the risk of developing severe pneumonia. Even though Omicron’s symptoms are milder than Delta’s, this new variant is 7 times more likely to spread than the previous virus. More people can get infected than this. But even then, there is a possibility of not getting more cases of severe symptoms, hospitalization or death.