Goa: Positivity rate below 5% for second day

PANAJI: While Goa’s case positivity rate remained below 5% for the second consecutive day as 169 people tested positive, the mortality count rose to 3,070 with seven deaths reported over the past 24 hours. Goa has 2,129 active cases, while 207 recoveries were recorded.
Five died at the Goa Medical College (GMC), while one death each was reported by Hospicio, Margao and a private hospital in North Goa.
A 60-year-old unknown man whose immediate cause of death was given as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), was brought dead to Hospicio.
A 69-year-old woman from Kudal, Maharashtra died at the private hospital after a week’s treatment.
Three women – an 89-year-old from Bicholim, a 71-year-old from Sawantawadi and an 85-year old from Bicholim – all having comorbidities, died after a few days in the hospital.
A 93-year-old man from Saligao and an 82-year-old from Maley – having comorbidities, died after a week under hospital treatment. Most of them were in home isolation before their hospitalisation.