No-one ever feels in tip top condition in January.
After the revelry of the Christmas and New Year break, it can take a while to feel yourself again and many of us can feel under the weather – feeling tired and fatigued is pretty common this time of year.
On any other year, it would be something all of us would just wait to get over – but with the omicron variant of Covid still running rampant in London, it could be dangerous to dismiss it, reports KentLive.
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A feeling of fatigue is one of the key Omicron symptoms that should not be ignored at a time when the virus is running riot across the UK.
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According to the ZOE Covid Study, these symptoms are associated with Omicron: sneezing, fatigue, scratchy throat, runny nose, headache, lower back pain, night sweats and body aches and loss of appetite.
And after the excesses of Christmas, many people could have put down a lack of energy of some of the other symptoms to a post-festive comedown.
The official advice is to get tested if you display the main symptoms of coronavirus, which the NHS lists as:
- a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature).
- a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual).
- a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you’ve noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal.
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The Government has been urged to update the list of symptoms by Tim Spector, lead scientist on the Zoe Covid Study app, who has been calling for a change since the emergence of the delta variant.
He told the BMJ: “The messaging from the government is just not clear on this.
“I think most people know what cold-like symptoms are. I would probably just add: ‘Have you got cold-like symptoms?’
“We need to educate people, go back to the basics, and say that if you’ve got cold-like symptoms keep away from people. You shouldn’t be waiting for the three classic symptoms.”
The Department of Health and Social Care for England said: “Since the start of the pandemic we have acknowledged Covid-19 has a much longer list of symptoms than the ones used in the case definition, and experts keep the list of symptoms under review.”
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