About 300 cases of the Delta-plus variant of Covid-19 have been detected in the country so far, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said on Thursday. At a press briefing on the present Covid-19 situation, he said that they had around 60-70 cases of Delta variant at the start and now have around 300 cases. Bhushan also said that the efficacy of the vaccines has been tested and they are effective against the Delta variant.

Meanwhile, Health Ministry officials said that Kerala is the only state that currently has more than one lakh active cases. Indian Council of Medical Research Director General, Dr Balram Bhargava, said that four states, namely Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh have active cases between 10,000 and 1 lakh, and the rest have less than 10,000 active cases.