Covid-19: Marginal rise in Goa’s positivity rate

PANAJI: Goa reported 120 new Covid-19 cases, two mortalities and 114 recoveries, taking the active caseload to 906 on Friday. The daily case positivity rate marginally rose to 2.7% for the 4,398 tests conducted .
The mortality count rose to 3,183 with two deaths. A 53-year-old woman from Sawantwadi having comorbidities died while undergoing treatment at GMC, and a 58-year-old man from Salcete also having comorbidities, died at South Goa district hospital.
As many as 17 patients were hospitalised and nine discharged. Margao urban health centre saw a further dip in its active cases with there being more recoveries than fresh infections. At the Quepem primary centre, the caseload dropped to four.
In north Goa, health centres at Mayem and Casarvanem had the least number of cases, two and three each. The tally of the bigger centres, Panaji and Porvorim, stood at 62 and 36 respectively.