PANAJI: A total of 37 people who travelled to Goa from the United Kingdom (UK) and a few of their contacts have been isolated at
ESI hospital in Margao after they tested positive for Covid. Only two are reported to be on oxygen while the others are recovering well.
Around half a dozen of those isolated in the hospital came in contact with the travellers and tested positive.
Majority of them are from South Goa and were transferred to the hospital from their homes where they were undergoing home isolation. The first six were transferred to ESI from the South Goa district hospital on December 25.
The patients are currently being isolated on one floor of the hospital.
TOI reported on Sunday that 16 travellers who arrived in Goa after December 8 tested positive when they were subjected to fresh RT-PCR tests since December 24.
A total of 979 travellers arrived in Goa from the UK since December 9.
The state’s first designated Covid hospital that treated over 2,600 patients over the past nine months had stopped admissions and was referring patients to the South Goa district hospital and GMC. It began new admissions on December 25 to isolate travellers who returned from the UK as per the Centre’s standard operating procedures (SOPs).
According to the SOP, the contacts of these travellers must also be placed in the isolation facility identified by the government.