omicron variant are more or less the same as that of common flu. However, there are minor differences that can make it difficult to differentiate between the two.
According to health experts, it is extremely difficult since both the Omicron variant and the common flu have common symptoms, such as a cough and a runny nose.
So, how can someone showing symptoms can differentiate between the two viral infections? Of course, one way is to get oneself tested and be sure about the same. “The major symptoms in Covid are that the fever is generally present for one or two days, then the fever goes away, and there is strong body pain and backache, much worse than in the flu.
We don't see as much back pain, severe headaches, and body aches in flu patients, which may be pretty severe in the first one to three days in Covid," saysDrBharesh Dedhia, Chief Consultant, Critical Care at P.