
However, doctors treating patients are providing clues to its impact.
According to South Africa Doctor Angelique Coetzee, “It’s totally different from the Delta”.
Speaking to Global News on Tuesday, she said that these patients aren’t displaying the same loss of taste and smell, need for supplemental oxygen or elevated pulse rate that doctors noted with Delta patients.
“It’s very much like a cold or flu type of symptoms,” she said, adding that patients are reporting headaches and body aches, and a slight sore throat.