PANAJI
The Directorate of Health Services on Monday recorded only 15 new cases of Covid 19 as the sample size for testing dropped massively to mere 1,396.The daily positivity rate stood at 1.07 per cent despite the small sample size. No Covid related deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours.
It may be recalled that the Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan had asked the governments of 13 states including Goa to ramp up testing in the last week of November.
Heavy emphasis was laid on ensuring a larger daily sample size owing to the sudden rise in travellers and events in these states.
In its letter, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had pointed out that higher testing is important for “timely monitoring and clustering of cases for early hotspot identification” and that in its absence, it would become difficult to determine the true level of infection spread.
On Monday, Goa’s active Covid count dropped below 400 for the first time in several weeks and now stands at 382.
