Tamil Nadu reports first death from Delta Plus variant
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After Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu has registered its first death due to Delta Plus COVID-19 variant.
New Delhi: After Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu has registered its first death due to Delta Plus COVID-19 variant. A person in Madurai succumbed to the new Delta variant, the state health department said. "After the death of the Madurai patient, the samples were collected, which confirmed that it was 'Delta Plus' variant," Minister for Medical and Family Welfare Ma Subramanian was quoted as saying by PTI. Subramanian informed that three positive cases of the Delta Plus strain were detected of which two have recovered. Among the infected, one was a 32-year-old nurse from Chennai and another individual from Kancheepuram district, he added. On Friday, the Centre informed that 51 cases of the Delta Plus variant of coronavirus have been detected in 45,000 samples sequenced so far in the country.More Related News