Yet another high as Goa records 75 deaths in one day

PANAJI: The state reported 75 Covid-19 fatalities on Tuesday, the highest for a single-day since the pandemic began. Also, the number of daily infections again crossed the 3,000 mark, even as the positivity rate dropped marginally to 37%.
In just 11 days of May, the state has seen 622 fatalities, with half of them occuring at Goa Medical College (GMC). On Tuesday, 48 of the 75 deaths were at GMC, while 17 died at the South Goa district hospital and five at private hospitals.

The youngest fatality of the day was a 34-year-old man from Salcete. Two patients — a 70-year-old unknown male and an 84-year-old man from Orlim — were brought dead to hospital. Ten patients died within 24 hours of their admission.
With fluctuations in oxygen supply continuing for yet another day at GMC, patients’ relatives and attendants took to social media to post frantic appeals.
“Pramod Sawant please help. This cannot be happening again and again. What is going on? There’s such a huge shortage of cylinders in GMC,” posted Ashley Delaney in a Facebook post.
Another post read, “This cannot be happening all the time. This is just not done,” hours before chief minister Pramod Sawant visited GMC’s Covid wards on Tuesday morning.
As of Tuesday, there were 32,835 actives cases in Goa. The day also saw 321 hospitalisations, the highest in 24 hours, and 178 patients were discharged. With no beds or even trolleys, several patients continue to be on the floors of GMC’s wards.
A patient’s relative asked on social media if anybody could help her sister suffering from severe pneumonia get an ICU bed. “She needs to be in ICU due to her severity, but they have kept her in the general ward. Last night, the oxygen supply was off for a while in her ward, and two patients died at that time. My sister became breathless,” she said in her post.