Covid-19: Goa registers 90 new cases, positivity below 3%

PANAJI: Goa reported 90 fresh cases, two deaths and 72 recoveries, pushing the tally of active cases to 1,027 and death toll to 3,150, on Monday.
The daily case positivity rate was below 3%, the recovery rate was steady at 97.5%.
Two men—a 32-year-old man Bicholim and a 72-year-old from Cumbharjua—died while undergoing treatment at Goa Medical College (GMC). Both had comorbidities, the younger man suffered from chronic kidney disease.
The day saw fewer hospitalisations and 12 people were discharged.
Health centres that have relatively high active caseload were urban centres of Panaji and Margao with 79 and 88 cases, respectively.
Other centres with moderate case tally ranging between 40 and 60 were Cansualim, Cortalim, Sanguem, Pernem, Siolim, Porvorim and Ponda.
On Monday, Mayem primary health centre had just one active case, Colvale 12 and Aldona 9 cases. In South Goa, it was Balli health centre that had the lowest, 13 cases.
Even as Goa’s case positivity rate has dropped below 5%, none of the centres has touched zero yet, even small centres continue to report fresh cases.