Goa: Recovery rate at 96%, active Covid-19 cases down to 3,473

PANAJI: Goa reported 302 Covid-19 cases, nine deaths, and 419 recoveries over the last past 24 hours. The case positivity rate remained below at 10%, while the recovery rate stands at 96%.
The active caseload reduced to 3,473.
Even bigger health centres now report fewer cases, and their daily average has gone below ten. Porvorim primary centre, that was reporting close to 80 to 100 fresh infections daily over the last two months, now sees less than five cases a day even as about 50 tests are done. Porvorim health centre had little over 100 active cases on Saturday.
As many as 47 patients were hospitalised during the day, and 38 discharged.
With the decline in new infections, the number of people placed in Covid care centres has reduced drastically.
With nine mortalities, the toll reached 2,985, of which, five occurred at the Goa Medical College (GMC), two each reported by South Goa District Hospital (SGDH) and different private hospitals.
A 42-year-old man from Quepem, who suffered from chronic kidney disease, died at GMC after two weeks of treatment.
A 44-year-old man from Kerim and who was hospitalised immediately after he tested positive, succumbed to the virus after two weeks of hospitalisation. He did not have comorbidities.