Cold weather and more transmissible subvariants have seen daily reported COVID-19 cases reach tens of thousands. Here are the symptoms you should look out for.
, Deputy Chief Medical Officer with the federal Health Department says that long COVID cases where symptoms are felt up to 12 months after infection are being observed.Problems with memory and concentrationAccording to Dr Brendan McMullan, paediatric infectious diseases specialist at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, COVID-19 symptoms, particularly the Omicron strain, present the same in children as in adults.
Dr McMullan says that while a majority of children will have mild symptoms, there are a few more severe indicators parents should monitor for. For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, children under the age of five will be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine with theAre Omicron symptoms milder in children?
"With previous strains, we saw a lot of teenagers that were particularly unwell with COVID, some of them needed intensive care support," Dr McNab said.