“About ten days ago, patients began to come to me with complaints of extreme fatigue and depression, as well as a severe headache,” TASS quotes the words of the chairman of the South African Medical Association, Angelica Kutze.
She noted that most of the patients had no symptoms such as fever and body pain.
According to Kutze, the patients did not think they had COVID-19.
“However, the tests carried out showed that they had a coronavirus caused by a new strain, which was then called omicron,” the doctor added.
Kutze added that in several dozen people with the disease, the level of oxygen in the blood did not drop.
Earlier in the Czech Republic confirmed information about the disease with a new strain of coronavirus "omicron".
The World Health Organization reported that existing PCR tests are capable of recognizing a new variant of the coronavirus.