- Tuesday, April 23, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
INDIA’S financial capital Mumbai has reported its first death from the Delta Plus variant of the Covid-19 disease. A 63-year-old woman passed away on July 27 after testing positive on July 21. Officials said the deceased had several comorbidities, including diabetes.
The latest death is the second in the western Indian state of Maharashtra from Delta Plus after an 80-year-old woman died in Ratnagiri in June.
The woman in Mumbai was reportedly fully vaccinated and among seven people in the city who tested positive for the variant which is a mutation of the Delta, a highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in India.
The results of genome sequencing from the woman’s samples arrived earlier this week.
Mumbai’s civic officials were in the process of contacting all the seven patients after receiving the results from the Maharashtra health department.
The woman who died did not have any travel history and two of her close contacts have tested positive.
Maharashtra has seen 13 more testing positive for the Delta Plus variant, according to the state’s government. While three cases were found in Pune, two each were detected in Nanded, Gondia, Palghar and Raigad and one each in Akola and Chandrapur.
These latest detections have taken the number of Delta Plus patients to 65. The state authorities were trying to trace people who recently come into contact with those infected.
