9 more patients of BA.5 and six of BA.4 sub-variant of Omicron were detected in Maharashtra, as per the report from the National Institute of Virology, Pune on Tuesday.
With this, the total tally of BA.4 and BA.5 variant cases found in state have gone up to 49. Pune has reported 15 cases so far followed by Mumbai 33, Nagpur, Thane and Palghar 4 and Raigad 3.
Earlier, Maharashtra had reported its first cases of the COVID-19 infection with BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of the Omicron strain of the virus in at least seven cases in Pune.
India had reported the first case of BA.4 sub-variant from Hyderabad earlier and later the Indian SARS-CoV2 Genomics Consortium had confirmed the detection of cases with BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants in Tamil Nadu and Telangana.
