Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Monday said 269 COVID-19 samples were analyzed from Mumbai during the 13th Genome Sequencing Series, out of which 268 were found to be infected with omicron sub-types of the coronavirus. A total of 367 COVID-19 patients’ samples were analyzed in the 13th series batch, which includes 269 from Mumbai and those outside the metropolis’s municipal limits, a release said. Out of 269 samples from Mumbai, 268 samples (99.63 per cent) were infected with the Omicron sub-variant of the corona virus. While one sample was found infected with another sub-version of the coronavirus, the civic body did not reveal details other than to say that a patient in the age group of 0 to 20 was infected.
Three of the 107 patients, who had not received a single dose of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine, died due to the viral infection, the release said.
According to BMC, out of 269 patients, 33 patients (12 per cent) are in the age group of 0 to 20 years, 108 patients (40 per cent) are in the age group of 21 to 40 years, 55 patients (21 per cent) are in the age group of 41 . 51 patients (19 percent) aged 60 years, 61 to 80 years old, and only 21 patients (8 percent) aged 80 years were infected with the Omicron sub-variant. It added that only one patient in the age group of 0 to 20 years was infected with the second sub-version.
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It further said that all 29 samples from patients in the age group of 0 to 18 years were infected with an Omicron sub-variant of the coronavirus, but none of them had any severe symptoms.
Out of these 269 COVID-19 patients, eight patients had received only the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and two of them were hospitalised, while 154 patients who had received both doses of the vaccine, 31 were hospitalised. were admitted and only one of them was in the ICU, the release said.
It also said that 107 patients had not taken a single COVID-19 dose. 22 of them were admitted to hospitals and three of them died.
Significantly, out of 268 patients infected with the Omicron sub-variant of the corona virus, six were infected with ba.4 and 12 with the ba.5 sub-variant between June 3 and June 16, 2022. One of these female patients was 16 years old. Older, while two male and two female patients who are above 80 years of age.
Four BA.4 and seven BA.5 patients had received both doses of the Kovid-19 vaccine, while two BA.4 and five BA.5 patients did not receive any vaccine, the release said. Was.
On Monday, Mumbai reported 1,062 COVID-19 cases and five fatalities, taking the toll to 19,604, a civic official said.