#COVID19 cases, 503 recoveries and 11 deaths in the last 24 hours.Active cases 21,142 pic.twitter.com/EE66Eor5mt Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday informed that as many as 248 out of the 280 samples sent for genome sequencing in Mumbai have been detected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus.
According to PTI, this was the eighth batch of samples, comprising 280 from civic limits and 93 from outside, that had been sent to check for the presence of Omicron.
An official said that 21 samples had the Delta derivative and 11 samples were found with other variants of Covid. Of the 280 samples from BMC limits, 96 or 34% were of patients in the 21-40 age group, 79 or 28% were in the 41-60 age group, 69 in the 61-80 age segment, 22 in the 0-20 segment and 14 or 5% in the 81-plus bracket. "Of these, 13 samples were of patients in the 0-18 age bracket, including two who were less than five years old.
Four were in the 6-12 age group, and seven in the 13-18 age bracket. A total of 174 out of 280 patients were fully vaccinated, seven had taken the first dose and 99 were unvaccinated," an official said.