Busting the general perception that senior citizens are susceptible to contracting coronavirus, a statistical analysis released by the Medical Education and Drugs Department (MEDD), Maharashtra on Thursday revealed that a sizeable of infected patients fell in the 31-40 years age group.

Of the total 122 cases till Wednesday evening , as much as 33 inflected persons are in the 31-40 years, 24 each in the age groups of 21-30 years and 41-50 years, while 15 persons are in the 51-60 age group. The remaining 13 are in the 61-70 age groups.

However, all those persons—five as on Thursday evening — were in in the age group 60-70 years.

The state MEDD data showed that two minors in the 1-10 age group and three very senior citizens in the age group of 71-80 were also infected.

An analysis of travel history of the infected patients reveals that China had no direct role in the spread of the pandemic in Maharashtra. This is because the maximum number of infected cases in the state comprised people with travel history to United Arab Emirates, followed by the USA, and Saudi Arabia.

An equally sizeable number of infected patients had history of travel to the UK, Philippines and Turkey, and a small number each from Australia, Scotland, Thailand, Russia, Congo, Spain and Oman.

In another piece of interesting statistics, a maximum 54 per cent cases were those who have travelled to one or the other above countries, while another 29 percent are those infected by coming in contact with the first category of foreign travellers.

The reports of six percent cases were inconclusive, while the results of another 11 percent are still awaited.

From among the 122 studied cases, Mumbai accounted highest number (56) cases, followed by Pune 31, Sangli 9, Thane 6, Nagpur 4, Yavatmal 4, Ahmednagar 3, Satara 2, and 1 each in Raigad, Aurangabad and Ratnagiri.