Angelique Coetzeethe, , the chairwoman of the South African Medical Association:
It presents mild disease with symptoms being sore muscles and tiredness for a day or two not feeling well. So far, we have detected that those infected do not suffer loss of taste or smell.
They might have a slight cough. There are no prominent symptoms. Of those infected some are currently being treated at home.”
We will only know this after two weeks. Yes, it is transmissible, but for now, as medical practitioners, we do not know why so much hype is being driven as we are still looking into it. We will only know after two to three weeks as there are some patients admitted and these are young people aged 40 and younger,” Coetzee added.
South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla on Friday (Nov. 26) said he was stunned to see countries impose “unjustified” travel bans across Africa amid concerns over the detection of the Omicron variant.
“The kind of knee-jerk reaction, it really doesn’t make sense,” Phaahla said at a media briefing, adding that travel bans violate the norms and standards of the WHO. He lashed out at other nations for “wanting to put blame” and ascribing the variant to South Africa rather than working collaboratively to address the situation.
Earlier on Friday, a committee of health experts from all 27 EU states “agreed on the need to activate the emergency break & impose temporary restriction on all travel into EU from southern Africa.”
The new variant, now known as Omicron, has been detected in extremely small numbers throughout Africa.
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