China News Service, November 29. According to foreign media reports, the chairman of the South African Medical Association pointed out that the dozens of patients she had contacted who were suspected of being infected with a variant of the new crown virus "Omi Keron" showed only mild symptoms. Fully recovered and not hospitalized.
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According to Agence France-Presse, the president of the South African Medical Association, Angelique Coetzee, said that in the past 10 days, she had been in contact with about 30 patients diagnosed with COVID-19, but their symptoms were different from the previous variants.
She said: "These patients have a symptom of extreme fatigue, which is unusual for young patients."
She said that most of the patients are men under the age of 40, and less than half of them have received the new crown vaccine.
They also have mild muscle soreness, itchy throat and dry cough, but only a few have a fever.
She said that these mild symptoms are different from other variants, which have more severe symptoms.
"We are not saying that there will be no serious illnesses," Couche said, but "for now, even the unvaccinated patients we have seen have only mild symptoms."
Recently, the "Omi Keron" variant of the new coronavirus has aroused global attention.
Many countries have issued entry restrictions or bans on travelers from several southern African countries such as South Africa.
The South African government considers these measures "hasty" and unfair.
Couche said that "Omi Keron" was hyped as an "extremely dangerous virus variant" with multiple mutations, but in fact the toxicity of the virus is still unknown.