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9-Month-Old Dies Due To COVID-19 In Mumbai, Youngest This Year In City

Mumbai: After a gap of 22 days, two COVID-19 deaths were reported in Mumbai on Thursday. One of these deaths was that of a nine-month-old baby with heart disease and down syndrome.

According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) health officials, one of the two dead was a nine-month-old baby with heart disease and Down syndrome.

“The second death is of a 90-year-old male suffering from ailments like hypertension and hernia,” the official said. So far, since the start of the pandemic, there have been 68 Covid deaths in the 0-18 age group in the city, of which 28 were in the 0-9 age group.

However, the city saw a decline in new Covid cases on Thursday as compared to July 6. As per the BMC report, the city saw 540 new cases, of which 94% were asymptomatic.

Both the state (19,413) and the city (4,875) saw a decline in active cases. The state recorded 2,678 new Covid cases with eight deaths on Thursday.

The latest genome sequencing report from the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur, found that 20 samples were positive for BA.2.75, a new subvariant of Omicron. All the 20 patients were from Nagpur who recovered.

The state so far has 30 confirmed cases of BA.2.75.

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