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Covid-19: 3 cases of BA.4 and 1 case of BA.5 Omicron sub-variants found in Mumbai

Updated on: 13 June,2022 08:08 PM IST  |  Mumbai
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'All four patients have been cured in home isolation,' says the state's health department official

Covid-19: 3 cases of BA.4 and 1 case of BA.5 Omicron sub-variants found in Mumbai

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As per BMC data, three cases of BA.4 and one case of BA.5 Omicron sub-variants of coronavirus have been found in Mumbai's Kasturba Hospital Laboratory. The data further reveals that two of the patients are 11-year-old girls and the other two are between 40 to 60 years of age group. All the cases have already recovered from the infection, the state's health department mentioned on Monday.


"Out of the three B.A.4 variant cases, two 11-year-old girls do not fall in the age group of vaccination and one patient did not take any of the vaccines as he was suffering from allergies. In one case of B.A.5 variant, the patient has received both doses of vaccine," says BMC official.


According to Maharashtra's public health department, all these patients were tested between May 14 to May 24.


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"All four patients have been cured in home isolation," says the state's health department official.

BA.4 and BA.5 are sub-variants of the highly transmissible Omicron strain of the coronavirus which had triggered the third wave of the pandemic in India.

Out of a total of 279 samples collected for genome testing, 278 samples were affected by a subtype of Omicron, while one was a subtype of Delta.

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