North beats South Goa’s positivity

PANAJI: Case positivity rate on Sunday stood at 3.12% but the weekly positivity rate (July 2 to July 10) indicated a higher rate for North Goa at 4.33% compared to 3.66% in South Goa. This is contrary to the trend seen over the past weeks where case positivity rate was higher in South Goa.
In North Goa, 60% of cases were detected via the Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) while in South Goa 76% were detected via RAT and the rest by RT-PCR.
Sunday’s mortality bulletin reported two deaths—two men aged 66 and 76. Both passed away after 12 days of hospitalisation.
The 66-year-old with diabetes from Canacona died at South Goa district hospital of bilateral Covid-19 pneumonia and had symptoms four days prior to admission.
The 76-year-old from Candolim who died at GMC had heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease .
Another 131 new infections were reported over the past 24 hours where 32 patients required hospitalisation and 99 were put on home isolation. Active cases dropped to 1,848 were 19 patients were discharged and 241 recovered. The recovery rate stands at 97.07%.
Cortalim has the most detected active cases at 128 while Margao and Ponda also have over 100 cases with 107 and 102, respectively. All other health centres have less than 100 active cases each.