“We definitely noticed that a sore throat is a predictive sign of an omicron,” she said in an interview with NBC.
Arwady urged patients with flu and cold symptoms to assume they have contracted the coronavirus, until medical testing shows otherwise.
In turn, the Russian immunologist, Vladimir Polybuk, said earlier that the characteristic symptoms of the “Omicron” strain of the Corona virus are severe sore throat, nasal congestion and dry cough.