643 FRESH CASES RECORDED
PANAJI: Coronavirus cases continued to mount in the State with 643 fresh cases coming to light according to the health bulletin of the Health Department on Saturday.
With the inclusion of 643 new cases of Covid-19, the active tally in the State has touched 5,920 and the total confirmed cases have crossed 28,000-mark of whom 21,760 have recovered.
Interestingly, the daily bulletin of the Health Department stands in contradiction of the mortality bulletin by recording only seven deaths on Saturday. ________________________________________________________
PANAJI/PERNEM
After fighting a brave battle against cancer for several months, a 12-year-old boy from Pernem taluka succumbed to another life-threatening illness, Covid, on Saturday. He is the youngest person in the State to have died from the virus.
The child was reportedly suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia, a slowly progressing and uncommon type of blood-cell cancer that begins in the bone marrow.
According to reports, the boy from Ibrampur-Pernem had been undergoing cancer treatment at the GMC hospital in Bambolim since the past nine months, before testing positive for Covid.
This is the 12th death from Covid in Pernem, while 82 persons, including 71 from the Mopa airport project, tested positive in the taluka on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the State’s mortality bulletin on Saturday recorded eight deaths. The mounting Covid death toll in Goa has now touched 343.
Apart from the 12-year old boy, the victims include a 25 year-old girl from Socorro, Porvorim who was suffering from chronic kidney disease. She was being treated since July 27.
The other deceased persons include a 60 year-old woman from Agacaim, a 61 year-old woman from Cortalim , 67 year-old man from Moira, a 68 year-old man from Karaswada in Mapusa, a 70 year-old man from Betora and a 78 year-old man from Verna.
Two of the eight deaths occurred within 24 hours of admission to the hospital. While six persons expired at Goa Medical College and Hospital in Bambolim, two passed away at ESI Covid Hospital in Margao.
Mopa has now leapfrogged Mandrem as the worst-affected village with 210 Covid cases and is the first panchayat in Pernem taluka to cross the 200-mark.
Mandrem has recorded (143) cases followed by Pernem town (101), Tuem (86), Dhargal (77), Korgao (67) and Arambol (66). The total count of Covid cases in the taluka now stands at 1,242, with 980 patients being discharged after recovering from the virus.
