Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The public should be aware of Omicron XBB infection. This is because the Ministry of Health has recorded a total of 48 cases of Covid-19 as of Thursday (10/11/2022) or later. With these results, the Ministry of Health expects the peak of the addition of Covid-19 cases in the country to occur within the next 1.5 months.
“Maybe in a month and a half at the latest we will reach this peak. At what peak, that’s what we will see later, but I think this peak will definitely be seen in December or early January at the latest,” said the minister of Cheers Budi. Gunadi Sadikin, quoted on Sunday (13/11/2022).
The XBB variant was claimed to have a faster rate of spread, but with milder symptoms than before.
Meanwhile, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US agency that deals with pandemics, in general the symptoms of this variant are similar to those of Covid-19. These include fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or shortness of breath, weakness and fatigue.
Then body and muscle aches, headache, loss of sense of taste or smell, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, nausea or vomiting, and diarrhea.
On the other hand, Ministry of Health spokesman Dr. Muhammad Syahril said that transmission of Omicron XBB subvariant tends to be easier than other Omicron subvariants.
“XBB, including XBB1, is indeed a mutation from BA.2 and BA.2.75. Its transmission is indeed faster than BA.5. It is fast, but like the previous BA.4 and BA.5, the severity level it’s inferior,” he explained.
“Immune escape is almost the same, namely the ability to avoid antibodies that are found in the body from both antibodies obtained and antibodies due to vaccines,” Syahril said.
The following are the symptoms of Omicron XBB.
– The tongue has no taste
– Nose doesn’t stink
– Sore throat
– Cold or stuffy nose
– Nausea
– Cough
– Hard to breathe
– He retched
– Abdominal pain or diarrhoea
– Fever or chills
– Pain throughout the body
– Headache
– The body gets tired easily and faints
– Muscular pain
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