COVID19: Three deaths reported in Maharashtra from Delta Plus variant

A 63-year-old woman died on July 27 is Mumbai's first Delta Plus death while a 69-year-old man in Raigad succumbed to the infection from the strain, according to an NDTV report.

An 80-year-old woman from Ratnagiri died last month from the Delta Plus variant of coronavirus.

The Mumbai woman tested positive on July 21 and was reported to have several comorbidities.

She was fully vaccinated and was among the seven patients who had tested positive for the Delta Plus variant. She was given oxygen support and was treated with steroids and Remdesivir, according to officials, the NDTV report stated.

Delta Plus variant is the mutant variant of the Delta variant of coronavirus that drove the second wave of Covid-19 in April-May and currently, many countries like Indonesia, US, Australia and China are battling its spread.

Mumbai's civic body BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) started contacting the patients when their results showed that they were infected by the Delta Plus variant.

Two of the relatives of the deceased woman also tested positive for the new variant.

Apart from Mumbai, 13 more have tested positive for the Delta Plus variant across Maharashtra, three cases are in Pune, two each in Nanded, Gondia, Raigad and Palghar, and one each in Chandrapur and Akola, according to the state government, the report said.

With this, the number of Delta Plus patients has increased to 65 in Maharashtra and 86 cases in all across the country but no exponential surge was noted.

Maharashtra tops the list of states that have detected Delta Plus variant followed by Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, Sujit Singh, the chief of the National Centre for Disease Control, told reporters at the Union Health Ministry briefing.