Mumbai's 1st Delta+ death is fully vaxxed woman, 63 | Economic Times

A 63-year-old woman with a lung disease but fully vaccinated is the first fatality linked to Covid’s Delta Plus variant in Mumbai. The woman died of Delta complications in July, which was confirmed by genome sequencing, according to a TOI report. Maharashtra overall has 65 cases of the variant, including 11 in Mumbai.The Delta Plus victim was detected with Covid on July 21 and passed away on July 27, after three days in ICU. According to the report, six of her close contacts were found to be Covid-positive. “Sample of the contacts who were found positive were sent for whole genome sequencing. Of those, two came positive for Delta-plus and the results of the others are awaited,” said Dr Mangala Gomare, BMC’s executive health officer. Her family members are all asymptomatic.“The patient had a lot of co-morbidities and an underlying lung condition,” Gomare added.The patient was a known case of interstitial lung disease and obstructive airway disease for which she was taking oxygen treatment at home before the Covid infection, said Gomare, adding she had no travel history or that of reinfection. Her initial symptoms were dry cough, loss of taste, body ache and headache. The BMC said she was vaccinated with both doses of Covishield.Delta Plus or ‘AY.1’ variant has mutated from the highly transmissible Delta variant (B.1.617.2) that was first isolated in Maharashtra early this year.The state reported a mild surge in Covid cases as well as deaths on Thursday. It added 6,388 cases, the highest in a week, and fatalities crossed 200, the highest in nearly 12 days. Officials said 56 deaths from Raigad district were added to the tally on Thursday.Mumbai continued to report under-300 cases and deaths stayed in single digits. With the addition of 281 cases and seven deaths, the total cases in the city rose to 7.4 lakh and the deaths touched 15,975.The tribal-dominated Nandurbar has become the second district in north Maharashtra to become Covid-free, after Dhule on August 9. Bhandara district from Vidarbha region too became Covid-free earlier this month. The lone active patient in Nandurbar was discharged from hospital on Wednesday evening. No fresh Covid cases have emerged in the district since August 2.