State witnesses spike in delta plus cases.
Amid the rise in covid cases in Maharashtra, the state also witnesses rise in Delta plus cases. The Delta Plus cases have reached to 103 after 27 fresh cases.
The department said that of the new 27 Delta Plus cases, six each were detected in Gadchiroli and Amravati, five in Nagpur, four in Ahmednagar, three in Yavatmal, two in Nashik and one in Bhandara district.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a release that the Delta variant, which according to the Union health ministry fuelled the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India, has been detected in 128 swab samples in Mumbai. The BMC said in the release that 128 out of 188 samples sent for genome sequencing at one of its facilities were found to have the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Among other samples, two were found positive for the Alpha variant and 24 for the Kappa variant and the rest were of other strains of Covid-19, it said.
The BMC has set up a new genome sequencing facility at the civic-run Kasturba Hospital in the Chinchpokli area. The civic body tested the first batch of samples at this facility inaugurated by chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on August 4.
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