Goa: One-year-old among 5 to succumb to Covid

PANAJI: Goa’s Covid-19 mortality count touched 520 on Wednesday with five more deaths including that of a one-year-old boy from Ponda who had chronic kidney disease. The state reported 479 recoveries on Wednesday and 356 new cases of infection, reducing the active tally to 4,187 while Goa’s total caseload reached 39,438.
“The one-year-old was brought to Goa Medical College (GMC) and hospital, Bambolim, when he had a sepsis shock.Covid-19 infection was an incidental finding in him,” GMC dean and in charge of Covid hospitals, Dr S M Bandekar said.
Other deaths are of three men and a woman, of which, one patient died at a private hospital in North Goa.
A 65-year-old from Madkai-Ponda, a 65-year-old man from Candolim, a 76-year-old male from Chimbel and a 51-year-old woman from Sattari have succumbed to the virus during the past 24 hours.
While one patient was detected with sepsis shock, two patients had developed acute respiratory distress syndrome and one had covid pneumonia when admitted to the hospital indicating that they delayed seeking medical help.
The 51-year-old woman had cancer as a comorbidity and two males had hypertension while one suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Bandekar said though plasma has proven effective in many patients, it is necessary that it be given within three days of a patient showing symptoms.
On Wednesday, as many as 268 patients were home isolated and 85 patients had to be hospitalised. The government, through health centres, has started distribution of home isolation kits and doctors attached to health services are assigned to call patients over 50 years of age, thrice a day.
Panaji had 14 new cases of Covid detected and its tally of active cases touched 215. Yet again, Porvorim which witnessed a higher incidence of Covid cases, had its tally crossing the 300-mark.