CONFIRMED! First Death In India Due To New Covid-19 ‘Delta Plus’ Variant

Madhya Pradesh Medical Education Minister on Thursday said five people in the state have so far been found infected with the 'Delta Plus' variant.

Representative Image of Delta Plus Variant

Bhopal: Amid concerns across the country over the emerging ‘Delta Plus’ variant, a woman from Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain city has succumbed to this variant of coronavirus.

Madhya Pradesh Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang on Thursday said five people in the state have so far been found infected with the 'Delta Plus' variant and added one of them has died.

“One person from Ujjain, who died, was not inoculated,” PTI quoted Sarang as saying.

He added the other four people, including three from Bhopal and one from Ujjain, vaccinated against Covid-19 are fine.

Sarang informed that a genome sequencing machine would soon be installed in state capital Bhopal, adding Madhya Pradesh would then not have to send samples to Delhi.

Meanwhile, Ujjain Collector Ashish Singh informed the woman, who died of Covid-19 earlier on May 23, was infected with the 'Delta Plus' variant.

The Collector said it was found that the woman, who tested Covid-19 positive earlier on May 17, was infected by the 'Delta Plus' variant.

He added that the 59-year-old woman’s sample was later sent for genome sequencing.

According to officials, the sample of an elderly woman from Bhopal was sent to the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on May 23 and it came out positive for the 'Delta Plus' variant on June 16.

They added that the woman, however, recovered in home

The ‘Delta Plus’ variant, formed due to a mutation in the Delta or B.1.617.2 variant, has been declared a variant of concern in India.