Maharashtra on Monday, said the state health department. With this, the total number of people infected with the mutant strain has reached 10.
Further, as per the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, 128 out of the 188 samples collected from Covid patients at Mumbai's Kasturba hospital were found to be positive for the Delta variant.
The Alpha variant was detected in two samples and the Kappa variant in 24 samples. This comes even as the state clocked in 3,643 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours -- lowest since 15 February.
A total of 105 more people succumbed to the disease while 6,795 patients recovered, a health department official said. With the new additions, the tally of Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra rose to 64,28,294