There are 48 cases of the delta plus variant of COVID-19 spread across 11 states, the government said Friday, adding that the maximum number of cases had been from Maharashtra .
Only 40 delta plus cases were registered two days ago, said the government.
Tamil nadu and Madhya Pradesh have nine and seven cases . Kerala has three. Punjab and Gujarat have two each and Andhra Pradesh, Odisha , Rajasthan and Karnataka and Jammu have one each.
The government, however, said that at this time the spread is still, “very localised”.
The virus strain had been isolated and is being cultured by the ICRM-National Institute of Virology, and tests to check its resistance to existing Covid vaccines were ongoing, the government added.
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