Goa’s Covid positivity rate climbs to 1.5%

PANAJI: Goa’s active tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 43 on Monday as six new infections and eight recoveries were reported.
The case positivity rate increased to 1.5% as 381 tests were conducted.
During the last two weeks, the state had raised the number of daily tests performed with a few other states reporting a rise in infections.
Since the end of the third wave, the number of tests conducted has reduced considerably, but they ranged between 200 to 300 tests a day, as swabs of only symptomatic people were collected for testing.