New surprising Omicron symptom added to list of top 20 to watch out for

THERE are a whole host of symptoms now that could mean you have Omicron.

They range from sneezing to nausea, muscle aches to sensitive eyes and skipping meals to a cough.

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The ZOE Covid tracker app has been releasing the top 20 most commonly reported symptoms each week.

Recently a new symptom has made it onto the list, as more people log they are suffering with it.

Ringing ears has been experienced by a number of Brits with Omicron.

Earlier this year Dr Konstantina Stankovic, chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Stanford University, US, said ear pain was becoming a common sign of infection.

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Her team learned that those infected with Covid could present with inner ear symptoms.

In order to test their theory the team recreated a model of the inner ear and exposed it to a Covid test.

Dr Stankovic said that infection could be present in the ears and it was likely to have come from the nose.

She added: "If you notice hearing loss or dizziness or ringing in your ears, don't dismiss them.

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"Get tested formally. In some of our patients, we've seen that hearing loss is the only sign of Covid infection."

Free tests have been scrapped for the majority of Brits, but you can pick single swabs up from £1 or a set of five from about £10 at pharmacies.

It comes as a record 4.9million people had Covid last week across the UK.

While case numbers are high, population immunity against Covid has also never been higher, and the Omicron variant is less severe.

This allows for the bug to be treated like any other respiratory illness, ministers say.

The rise in infections is largely due to BA.2, Omicron's subvariant, which is much better at getting round immunity and spreads faster.

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But crucially, it has not caused a substantial increase in patients in hospital battling the bug.

For the most part, people will recover after a few days at home feeling unwell. Some won't even have symptoms at all.

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