Goaon Thursday recorded its sixth Covid-19 positive case with a man fromMandrem testing positive for the dreaded Coronavirus.
Confirmingthe development, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said the person used towork aboard a ship and had returned after travelling to severalcountries. “He has told us that he had home quarantined himselfafter arriving,” Sawant said.
HealthMinister Vishwajit Rane provided further information on Twitter. “AGoan with a travel history to Mozambique and Kenya has testedpositive for Covid-19 today. He arrived in Goa on March 19 viadomestic flight from Mumbai and self-quarantined himself,” Ranetweeted.
Thefive persons who had come in close contact with this patient havebeen quarantined at a government facility and their tests arescheduled to be conducted on Friday.
Thevirology laboratory set up at GMC is now functioning smoothly and iscapable of conducting 20 tests daily.
Speakingabout the six positive cases of Covid-19 reported in Goa so far, CMSawant said, “five of the six cases are Goans, who had travelledabroad. Four were working on ships, one had returned via the UnitedStates of America and one contracted the disease from his ownbrother.” Goans have been requested not to assume that Covid-19 canbe contracted only upon coming in contact with foreigners ornon-Goans.
