Positivity at 15%, Goa sees 418 fresh cases, 13 deaths

PANAJI: Goa recorded 418 new Covid-19 cases, 1,162 recoveries and 13 mortalities in the last 24 hours. The case positivity rate was at 15 %, while the recovery rate increased to 94%. Goa now has 6,000-plus active cases.
On Monday, thirteen patients died at the Goa Medical College (GMC) and three at the South Goa District Hospital (SGDH).
Of these, five were below the age of 50, with the youngest being a 35-year-old man from Maharashtra’s Sindhudurga district, who died after 15 days of treatment at GMC.He had no comorbidities.
Several Covid patients from neighbouring districts of Maharashtra as well as Karnataka come to GMC for treatment for want of similar facilities in their towns.
A man in his late thirties from Vasco, whose immediate cause of death was given as acute respiratory distress syndrome and sepsis, having multiple comorbidities, died at the SGDH after 10 days of treatment. A 45-year-old woman from Cudnem, who did not have any comorbidity, died within a few hours of admission to GMC. She had tested positive a day earlier.
A 62-year-old man from Verem, who was rushed to GMC in critical condition, died within a few hours. Though he had undergone the Covid test mid-last month, the mortality bulletin said that he had complained of ill-health for a month.
The day saw 69 patients hospitalised and 14 discharged.
The active tally of four centres in North Goa — Aldona, Bicholim, Mayem, and Cansarvanem — on Monday dropped below the 100 mark.