“You can call false symptoms of intoxication like body aches, fever, headaches, pain in the eyeballs,” TASS quoted her as saying.

According to Lisina, similar symptoms are also characteristic of the flu, so when a high temperature with febrile fever appears, an express test for coronavirus should be done immediately.

The doctor explained that with the omicron variant, the disease is milder.

“We see less damage to the lung tissue, the clinical course of the disease is milder and with typical clinical signs,” Lisina said.

Earlier, epidemiologist, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Onishchenko, in an interview with NSN, spoke about the importance of revaccination against coronavirus.