8 new Omicron cases reported in Maharashtra, state’s tally climbs to 48

Of the new cases, four were reported from Mumbai, three from Satara and one case was from Pune.

Omicron Covid-19 cases continued to rise in Maharashtra as eight more infections related to the latest variant of the coronavirus were detected, which have taken the state’s tally to 48, the state health department said on Saturday.

In Mumbai, three patients were residents of other places such as Chhattisgarh, Kerala and Jalgaon in Maharashtra, while one was a resident of the city. (HT Photo | Representational image)

Of the new cases, four were reported from Mumbai, three from Satara and one case from Pune, it added.

In Mumbai, three patients were residents of Chhattisgarh, Kerala and Jalgaon in Maharashtra, while one was a resident of the city.

Also, two of the patients had travelled to Africa, one to Tanzania and another to the UK, the department also said. Further, all patients were fully vaccinated and asymptomatic and currently in isolation.

The three patients from Satara, including an eight-year-old, who belonged to the same family, travelled to East Africa. They too have been observed to have no symptoms and except the child, the other two were vaccinated.

On Friday, the Union health ministry said the Omicron tally in India stood at 113. New infections have also been reported from at least two other states in the last 24 hours.

Karnataka reported six new Omicron cases – five of them were found in educational institutions in Dakshina Kannada and one was a returnee from the United Kingdom – while Kerala also logged four fresh infections. The tally in Karnataka reached 14 while in Kerala it stood at 11.

Meanwhile, the daily infections in Maharashtra dipped slightly after 854 people tested positive for the coronavirus disease across the state. On Friday, the state logged 902 new cases.

Further, 11 people succumbed to their illness in the last 24 hours. The state has reported 6,648,694 total confirmed cases so far and the death toll climbed to 141,340.

Mumbai added 274 new cases to the state’s toll while there were no new deaths in the city. The city’s total caseload reached 766,729 and the death toll remained at 16,363.

Overall recoveries reached 6,496,733 after 804 people were discharged on the day. Medical workers in the state have so far tested 67,570,939 samples for the disease.