PANAJI
The Health Department on Friday recorded 1,420 new cases of Covid-19 and 12 Covid related deaths. While the daily positivity rate stood at a record high of 39.3 per cent, the total active cases has crossed 11,000. The total Covid victim count of Goa has reached 976.
A total of 10 deaths occurred at Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim, one at South Goa District Hospital in Margao and one at PHC Betki. Eight of the deceased suffered from severe bilateral Covid pneumonia in the last stages.
A 65 year-old woman from St Estevam, who was under home isolation, was brought dead at Primary Health Centre in Betki. The Directorate of Health Services informed that she was asymptomatic but was in close contact with another Covid positive patient.
The other deceased persons include a 24 year-old man from Sindhudurg who was suffering from metastasis of advanced kidney cancer, a 49 year-old woman from Bardez suffering from bronchial asthma, a 51 year-old woman from Kolkata, a 55 year-old man from Siolim, a 56 year-old woman from Calangute, a 57 year-old woman from Bicholim, a 62 year-old man from Calangute, a 67 year-old woman from Curchorem, a 70 year-old man from Pernem, a 77 year-old man from Vasco and an 85 year-old man from Anjuna who had Parkinson’s disease.
15 GMC doctors infected; GARD
wants separate accommodation
PANAJI: Goa Association of Resident Doctors on Friday wrote to Health Secretary Ravi Dhawan drawing his attention to the urgent need to arrange a separate accommodation facility for GMC doctors who test positive for Covid-19..
So far, at least 15 GMC doctors and GARD members have contracted coronavirus while on duty and GARD informed that eight more doctors, who are presently experiencing symptoms, are awaiting Covid test reports.
“There is an urgent need for a separate accommodation facility for doctors who test positive as they cannot be accommodated in the general hostel for the fear of transmission of infection. Most of these doctors do not have any other place for quarantine at the moment,” the letter states.
Hotel Baga notified as
paid Covid care centre
PANAJI: North Goa Collector Ajit Roy on Friday notified Hotel Baga Residency at Baga Road, Near Piety Chapel, Khobrawada in Calangute as a paid Covid-19 Care Centre to house Covid-19 positive patients.
