Be careful! Delta Plus variant cases increase in Chennai and in Tamil Nadu now!!
Posted on: 26/Jun/2021 9:11:23 AM
People belonging to TN have been affected badly in the first as well as in the second Coronavirus infection wave is well known. We have been hearing that the new Delta Plus variant has been creating issues across India and the cases have been increasing slowly.
The shocking piece of information is that in Chennai city as many as 7 Delta Plus variant cases and one case each in Kancheepuram and Madurai districts have been reported till now. This has made many to worry.
It must be noted that there are till now 48 Delta Plus variant cases in India from the 45,000 samples that have been tested. The state of Maharashtra has now got as many as 20 such variant cases and that is the highest tally for any state in India and is followed by Tamil Nadu with 9 such variant cases.
It has been brought to light by some officials that 3 out of 1159 samples sent for genomic sequencing by Tamil Nadu Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine DPH have been tested and results have been awaited for another 380 samples. Point is that 2 patients have recovered and one patient died and the other 6 Delta Plus variant cases from ICMR-NIE samples have recovered from Covid-19 infection.
Health minister Mr. M. Subramanian was of the view that many people would have been affected by the new variant during the second wave. He added that it had no unprecedented effect or spread factor and the same treatments were given to the patients with new variants also. It is worthy to mention that those affected with the new variant are stable and their relatives who were tested upon contact tracing are also doing well. Unless there is new strain, there would not be any change in protocol and vaccine effectiveness needs to be studied.
