Recently a new Covid-19 variant was detected in SA: the C.1.2 variant. Not much is known about the variant at this stage and experts and scientists are studying samples and available data.
Covid-19 symptoms include a cough, shortness of breath, fever, chills, loss of smell and taste, runny nose and diarrhoea. Stock photo.Not much is known about the variant at this stage and experts and scientists are studying samples and available data.
It would be worth waiting for more data and scientific study before trying to say for certain, but it doesn't look to be different in symptomatology, as far as we know.Meyer is the head of the SA Vaccination and Immunisation Centre at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University. Burnett is a scientific adviser at Savic
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