PANAJI
Goa recorded a huge surge in daily new cases of Covid-19 on Friday with 1,432 of the 6,592 samples tested in the last 24 hours turning out positive for the virus.
The 24-hour count of daily new cases on Thursday was 971 and a day earlier (Wednesday) it was 1002.
The daily bulletin issued by the Directorate of Health Services on Friday said two more had succumbed to the disease taking the cumulative toll of the pandemic in the State to 3,530.
The worrisome matter is the fact that the Covid positivity rate has shot up to 21.72 per cent and just 112 patients have recovered pegging the active cases on the State as of Friday to 5,931.
