According to the latest report, Maharashtra has recorded three deaths -- each from Ratnagiri, Mumbai and Raigad -- so far due to the Delta Plus variant of the coronavirus.
On Friday, August 13, an official said that a 69-year-old man diagnosed with Delta Plus succumbed in Nagothane, Raigad. Meanwhile a middle-aged woman infected by the same variant is under treatment in nearby Uran town.
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The Maharashtra health department had on Wednesday, August 11, said that cases of Delta Plus variant have reached 65 in the state.
Among these 65, the highest 13 are from Jalgaon, 12 from Ratnagiri, 11 from Mumbai, six each in Thane and Pune, three in Palghar, two each in Raigad, Nanded, and Gondia, and one each from Sindhudurg, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Sangli, Beed, Nandurbar, Akola, and Chandrapur, reports suggested.
Moreover, a 63-year-old fully vaccinated woman on Thursday evening, August 12, became the first fatality linked to Covid’s Delta Plus variant in Mumbai. The woman was also suffering from lung disease apart from several other comorbidities. Reportedly, she had died in July and it is only now via genome sequencing that it has been confirmed that she was infected by the Delta plus variant.
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