63-Year-Old Fully Vaccinated Woman Succumbs To Delta Plus Variant In Maharashtra

The Institute of Genomics Integrative Biology laboratory detected 20 more patients with the Delta Plus variant, bringing the total number in the state to 65 so far.

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New Delhi: New Delhi: A 63-year-old woman fully vaccinated woman succumbed to the Delta Variant of Covid-19 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Following her death, two of her close contacts have also been found infected with the Delta Plus variant.

It is the second death due to this variant in Maharashtra as it had claimed the life of an 80-year-old woman from Ratnagiri district on June 13 who was vaccinated though.

The victim herself was tested positive on July 21 and passed away on July 27th after spending three days in the ICU. It was only on August 11, 2021, that the state government authorities came to know that she was infected with the Delta Plus variant which came to light in the genome sequencing report, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said.

According to a PTI report, six close contacts of the deceased woman have also tested coronavirus positive. After their samples were sent for whole genome sequencing, two of them were found to have been infected with the Delta Plus variant, and the result of others is awaited.

“People shouldn’t panic but continue to wear masks and maintain physical distancing. The patient had a lot of co-morbidities and an underlying lung condition,” Dr. Mangala Gomare BMC's Executive Health Officer told TOI. 

Two days back, the Maharashtra government had said that as many as 20 new cases of the Delta Plus variant were detected in the state on Wednesday alone and seven of them were in Mumbai.

With this, the number of patients found infected with this variant in the state had increased to 65, said a statement issued by the health department. Out of the newly detected cases, seven were in Mumbai, three in Pune, two each in Nanded, Gondia, Raigad, Palghar, and one each in Chandrapur and Akola districts, it had said.