Omicron symptoms mild with or without vaccination, says South Africa doctor who flagged variant

New Delhi: Covid cases infected by the Omicron variant, whether vaccinated or not, generally witness mild symptoms, however in the unvaccinated, they’re more violent and last longer, said Dr Angelique Coetzee, who’s among the croakers who first flagged the largely shifted strain in South Africa.

Among the vaccinated, two or three days are generally enough for relief of symptoms, she added Pfizer is one of two vaccines presently being administered in South Africa. The other is Johnson & Johnson’s  We’re seeing further advance infections with Pfizer vaccines, but remember further people were vaccinated with Pfizer and not so numerous with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine,” Dr Coetzee said in an exclusive discussion with ThePrint.

Speaker of the South African Medical Association, a professional association for public and private sector medical interpreters, Dr Coetzee has been a clinical croaker for 33 times. She’s grounded out of Pretoria VDO.AI Advance infections are those that be more than a fortnight after a person has completed full vaccination as per protocol, said Coetzee. The time pause is to regard for the full vulnerable response to be mounted.

“ Health workers have been vaccinated since February this time with J&J. We saw advance infections in healthcare workers during the third surge too. Indeed though it was Delta, they were less severe but some croakers failed indeed after being vaccinated,” said Coetzee With South Africa reporting several thousand cases per day since the Omicron advertisement, there’s now further clarity about the geste of the variant than there was before.

“ What we’ve learnt is that it’s relatively transmittable. Is it further than Delta? We don’t know. Whether it’ll infect further people than Delta at the end of the day, we will have to see. It can be diagnosed using a PCR test,” she said.

“ We also know you can test on rapid-fire tests between one and five days of symptoms. In the primary healthcare set-up, utmost of the cases are mild, no need for hospitalisation. No oxygen demanded for maturity cases. In the morning of any surge, children and youngish people are the first to be affected,” she added. “ As the surge progresses, further senior, people with comorbidities, start getting affected. When that happens, we will know exactly how numerous severe cases there are.”