The country’s commercial Capital on Thursday recorded the first death due to Covid-19 Delta Plus variant, after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) received the test report confirming that a 60-year-old woman had died due also known as AY 1 -- as new virus also known as -- on July 24.
Informed sources in the BMC said that the samples of the woman – who had died in the eastern suburbs of the metropolis on July 24 – had been sent to the laboratory for testing. The BMC’s Health Department received a report on Thursday, attributing the woman's death to Delta Plus variant.
There are currently 20 new confirmed Delta plus variant cases in Maharashtra. With these cases the total number of infected with Delta Plus has gone 65. Except for one patient who died, all other patients detected earlier with the Delta Plus variant have been cured in Mumbai.
Among the newly confirmed Delt Plus cases, seven are women. Of them, four had been administered both the vaccines, while one patient had received one dose of vaccine.
Among the infected women, the deceased woman was 60-year-old, while the rest of the females are aged between 17 and 38 years and all these women have been cured.
In Maharashtra, there have so far been 65 confirmed Delta plus cases. Of the infected persons, 32 are men and 33 are women.