Mumbai: A total of 45 Delta variant cases plus Coronavirus have been reported in Maharashtra during the sequencing of the genome, said the State Health Department on Sunday, adding one patient to die.
At the age of 13, the maximum number of patients comes from Jalgaon in the North Maharashtra followed by Ratnagiri (11) in the region of the coastal Konkan.
“80 percent of the samples sent to the genome sequencing have been positively tested for the Delta Plus variant (from Coronavirus).
45 patients come from Jalgaon (13), Ratnagiri (11), Mumbai (5), Pune (5), Pune (3) , and each of Palghar, Sindhudurg, Sangli.
Nandurbar, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, and Beed, “said the department in a statement.
Of this 45 samples, information about 35 patients was taken by the Ministry of Health.
One death was reported while other patients reported symptoms of mild to medium, he said.
The exact number of samples is sent for genome sequencing and periods where they are analyzed not mentioned.
The Union State Minister for Health Bharati Pawar told Lok Sabha in a written reply on Friday that the analysis of the Genome data was a sustainable and sustainable process.
Periodic updates are divided into experts and countries and also regularly available in the public domain through the Insacog Media Bulletin (Consortium Genome SARS-COV-2 India).
Countries are regularly advised to send samples for genome sequencing and provide clinical data of positive people to enable greater epidemiological insights to identify the relationship between surges in cases in various places to variants, the minister said.
Outlining the steps taken to examine the deployment of the Delta variant, Pawar has said to monitor the variant of the SARS-COV-2 virus, at first, the genomic sequence was carried out through the National Institute of Virology, Pune.
Furthermore, the United States established the Insacog in December 2020 as a consortium of 10 Ministry of Health Laboratory, the Biotechnology Department, the Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR) and the Scientific and Industrial Research Council (CSIR).
The insacog laboratory network has increased to 28, pawar states.
45 Delta Plus Covid Variant Cases Reported in Maha
