Health officials said eight more cases of omicron, including that of an eight-year-old girl, were reported from Maharashtra on Saturday, taking the number of infections to 48.
He said all the new cases were “asymptomatic”.
According to a report by the city-based National Institute of Virology (NIV), four cases were detected during surveillance at the Mumbai airport, three from Satara district and a 17-year-old girl from Pune city.
travel history
Of those detected during screening at the Mumbai airport, only one was a resident of the city, while three were residents of Jalgaon district, Chhattisgarh and Kerala respectively. He had a travel history to Africa and the UK
Officials said that 28 of the 48 cases have already been discharged after a negative RT-PCR test.
The three cases from Satara, including an eight-year-old child, were members of the same family who had a travel history to East Africa and all without symptoms and are in isolation.
Officials said the Pune girl is a close contact of an international traveller.
Thus, 18 cases have been reported in Mumbai city so far, while 19 in Pune district – 10 from Pimpri-Chinchwad, six from Pune Rural and three from Pune city, three from Satara, while two each in Osmanabad and Kalyan-Dombivli- Two cases have been registered, and one case each was reported in Nagpur, Buldhana, Latur and Vasai-Virar.
eleven deaths
The state’s active cases continued to rise to 854 COVID-19 cases while 804 new recoveries were reported on Saturday. Eleven fatalities took the toll to 1,41,340.
Maharashtra’s active case tally has risen to 6,942 with a recovery rate of 97.71%, health officials said. The case positivity rate is 9.84% while the recovery rate currently stands at 64,96,733.
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