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Thane, Nov 29 (PTI) The fifty five inmates of an old age home in Maharashtra"s Thane district and seven others who had tested positive for coronavirus were in a "stable" condition at a civil hospital here and samples of 15 of them were sent for genome sequencing, a health official said on Monday.
Four of them were kept in the hospital"s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with oxygen support and they were also stable, civil surgeon Dr Kailas Pawar said.
The 55 fully vaccinated senior citizens staying of the "Matoshree" old age home, five employees of the facility and two family members of the staff, including a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, had tested positive for the viral infection over the weekend following which all of them were admitted to the Thane Civil Hospital.
The district administration had declared Sorgaon village in Bhiwandi tehsil, where the facility is located, as a containment zone.
Dr Pawar said the senior citizens might have contracted the viral infection fast as they move around, eat and have various activities together at the old age home.
Out of the 62 patients admitted to the hospital, 37 are males and 25 females.