The various reported symptoms of Omicron also vary, but sometimes they tend to be the same as flu symptoms, including coughing and colds.
SERAMBINEW.COM – The corona virus outbreak has not been completed yet is still worrying.
corona virus varian Omicron continues to spread in Indonesia.
As of today, Wednesday (23/2/2022), there were an additional 61,488 new cases. Meanwhile, 227 patients died.
The case of the Omicron variant in Indonesia was first detected in November 2021. Not long after, this variant continued to spread and almost all regions in Indonesia have now been infected with the virus.
The various reported symptoms of Omicron also vary, but sometimes they tend to be the same as flu symptoms, including coughing and colds.
Many Omicron patients complain of symptoms such as fever, headache, body aches, cough, and sore throat.
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In fact, not a few have confused the public, especially the cough symptoms due to the Omicron variant of Covid-19 with a cold cough due to the seasonal flu virus.
According to Internal Medicine Specialist Consultant for Tropical Diseases & Infections at Pondok Indah Puri Indah Hospital and Pondok Indah Bintaro Jaya Hospital, Dr. Ronald Irwanto, Sp.PD-KPTI, FINASIM, the various symptoms due to the Covid-19 variant are very difficult to distinguish clinically.
So, when someone has a fever, accompanied by respiratory system disorders such as cough, sore throat, and runny nose, it is recommended to do a PCR swab test to confirm Covid-19 infection.
“Actually, the symptoms of Omicron, Delta, Alpha, Beta, Gamma are almost the same. The symptoms of Omicron are the same as other (variants) and there are no special or special characteristics if this (symptom) is Omicron or not,” said Ronald in a webinar, Tuesday (22/22/2020). 2/2022).
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