Forty eight cases of the new Delta Plus variant of Coronavirus have so far been identified in India, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)'s director general Balram Bhargava. "More importantly, they have been very localised. This virus has also been isolated and cultured now," he said during a briefing Friday.
At least seven cases of the new Delta Plus variant of Coronavirus have been confirmed in Madhya Pradesh, two of whom have died, it was reported earlier. Doctors said they had not received any vaccination. Three patients, who received single or double doses of vaccine earlier, are cured or are under home isolation without any complication. Two others who did not receive any vaccination have also managed to defeat the infection, doctors said. One of them is a 22-year-old woman and the other a toddler aged two years.
Meanwhile, workers and residents in Sydney were ordered to stay home for a week on Friday, as authorities locked down several central areas of Australia's largest city to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19. Sixty-five Covid-19 cases have been reported so far in the flare-up linked to a limousine driver infected about two weeks ago when he transported an international flight crew from Sydney airport to a quarantine hotel, AFP reported.
