According to the latest report, the 55 senior citizens and seven staff members of an old age home, who had tested positive for coronavirus, are in a "stable" condition and are being treated at a civil hospital in Thane, said an official on Monday, November 29.
Of the total patients, samples of 15 were sent for genome sequencing. This comes amid a fear of new COVID-19 variant Omicron.
However, four of them were kept in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with oxygen support and they were also stable, civil surgeon Dr Kailas Pawar said.
All the patients were under observation and the hospital's medical team was attending to them round-the-clock noting that most of them were senior citizens who required assistance at all times. These patients will be kept in the hospital for at least 10 days before a decision is taken on their discharge, he added.
Out of the 62 patients admitted to the hospital, 37 are males and 25 females. The official said 41 of these patients have co-morbid conditions.
According to reports, the senior citizens staying at the 'Matoshree' old age home in Khadavli area of Bhiwandi Taluka, Thane district, were fully vaccinated.
Of the seven others, five were the employees of the facility and two family members of the staff, including a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, had tested positive the infection.
Following the incident, the area was declared a containment zone and the primary health centre carried out a detailed survey on the same.
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