Amid the rising cases of Covid-19 in the country, four patients of B.A. 4 Omicron variant and three cases of B.A. 5 variants of the Omicron sub-lineage of coronavirus have been found in Maharashtra for the first time.
However, all the patients only had mild symptoms and were treated at home in isolation. All the seven patients, four men and three women are from Pune and are in home isolation.
BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of coronavirus were found in April in some parts of the world including South Africa, but until now no cases had been detected in the state.
Four patients are above 50 years of age while two are in the 20-40 age group while one patient is a nine-year-old child.
All six adults have received both the dosages of the vaccine while one has taken the booster shot too. The child, however, is unvaccinated.