PANAJI
Covid mortality rate continued to worry with nine more people succumbing to the disease in the last 24 hours, raising the State’s cumulative death toll to 3,708.
However, the daily caseload continued to decline much as health officials had claimed on Tuesday that the peak of the current third wave of infections had already been surpassed.
Only 655 samples of the nearly 4,000 tested in the last 24 hours turned up positive, officials said, adding that the State’s positivity rate is now a comfortable 16.74%.
The active caseload is also down to 7,051 as 1,465 people were declared as fully recovered in Wednesday’s daily health bulletin.
Nonetheless, hospitalisation continued to rise with 47 positive patients admitting themselves to Covid designated hospitals.
