Covid-19: Unlike Delta, Omicron does not cause loss of smell, says expert

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The Covid-19 Omicron variant does not cause patients to lose their sense of smell like the Delta variant, said the Health Ministry’s National Institutes of Health’s Institute for Medical Research (Microbiology and Immunology) pathologist Dr Masita Arip.

She said this was one of the significant differences between the symptoms of the Omicron and Delta variants.