PANAJI
Goa’s Covid-19 graph continued to soar on Sunday with 2,293 new Covid cases being detected from among the 5,946 samples tested in the last 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate stood at 38.5 per cent and the total active cases have now risen to 13,689.
The Directorate of Health Services recorded 24 Covid-related deaths. With this, the State’s Covid victim count has crossed 1,000-mark and is presently at 1,017.
Seven of these deaths occurred at South Goa District Hospital in Margao while 17 deaths occurred at Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim.
Of the 24 deceased patients, seven expired in less than 24 hours and all were symptomatic for a minimum of three days. The youngest, a 25 year-old man from Mapusa, was symptomatic for 10 days prior to his death.
One of the deaths at GMC was a victim in a case of a road mishap. The death was reported in the surgical unit after the patient was brought in with severe head injury and the Covid test conducted was positive. The actual cause of death in this medico-legal case will be announced after the post mortem.
The deceased persons include a 52 year-old man from Palolem, a 40 year-old man from Vasco, a 68 year-old man from Mormugao, a 78 year-old man from Mapusa, a 78 year-old man from Vasco, an 82 year-old man from Canacona, a 52 year-old man from Vasco, a 38 year-old man from Vasco, a 78 year-old man from Quepem, a 73 year-old man from Siolim, a 71 year-old woman from Vasco, a 75 year-old woman from Bardez, a 58 year-old woman from Margao, a 70 year-old woman from Ponda, an 85 year-old man from Vasco, a 56 year-old man from Panaji, a 56 year-old man from Mapusa, a 70 year-old woman from Ponda, a 52 year-old man from Bicholim, a 65 year-old man from Dabolim, a 56 year-old woman from Salcete and a 91 year-old woman from Bardez.
