A health department bulletin said that Ganguly and five other foreign travellers were found positive for the Delta Plus variant. State Power Minister Aroop Biswas and film director Srijit Mukherjee have also tested covid positive
On Wednesday, the Maharashtra Health Department had pegged the number of Delta Plus variant patients in the state at 65 to date.
His sample was sent for genome sequencing on 24 April. He had contracted the virus from another infected person and was found to be asymptomatic.
After the Delta Plus variant of the coronavirus was found in two victims in Gujarat on Friday, Rajesh Bhushan (IAS), from the DOH, has written to Mukim to take immediate containment measures in Surat and other places where clusters of Delta variant have been found.
The states included Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Gujarat, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Rajasthan, Jammu and Karnataka.
In a message on his social media page Health Minister Vishwajit Rane also said that he along with Sawant were "constantly monitoring the situation on ground".
The genome seuencing samples confirmed the presence of Delta Plus variant, a mutation of the Delta strain or B.1.617.2 variant first detected in India.
