India is witnessing a steady rise in COVID cases again, driven by a newly evolved sub-lineage of Omicron. While symptoms are generally milder, this is not the time for complacency. As infections of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — continue to spread around the world, there have been reports that symptoms, in some respects, are different... If you have Omicron or any variant of COVID-19, you will likely have symptoms for a couple of weeks. You're contagious from 1-2 days before your symptoms start until 2-3 days after they're... Omicron and its subvariant, BA.2 tend to cause milder disease than other variants. Particularly in vaccinated people, those symptoms don't last as long.
