Goa: CCP’s market staff give swab samples

PANAJI: Swab samples of forty staff of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) were taken for testing on Friday, a day after a person running a tavern tested positive at the Panaji market on Wednesday.
CCP mayor Uday Madkaikar also got himself tested. Around 70 of CCP’s staff at Chimbel will be tested at Chimbel on Saturday, Madkaikar said. The vegetable seller at Panaji market from Chimbel who was a suspected case has tested negative, he said.
The staff are being tested after several positive cases from Chimbel emerged on Thursday and Friday. Around 50% of the vendors at Panaji market are from Chimbel, he said.
Three staff from CCP’s office also come from Chimbel. CCP has shut its office till Monday and the office is being sanitised, he said.
“We have told all Chimbel staff and workers not to report to work. We told them to get themselves tested and produce a negative certificate to join work,” he told TOI.
The Chimbel workers are engaged in garbage collection, road work and other works.