PANAJI: Active Covid-19 cases dropped to 644 on Tuesday, the lowest count in seven months. Two people died and 80 new cases were detected.
The weekly district positivity rate for North Goa continues to be higher than that of South Goa. For the week October 5 to 11, the positivity rate was 1.84% for North Goa compared to 1.21% in South Goa.
Thirteen new hospitalisations were reported, and 67 persons opted for home isolation. Seven were discharged from hospital and 81 recoveries were seen over the past 24 hours.
The recovery rate is at 97.7%.
Of the two who died at GMC is a 59-year-old man from Vengurla and 63-year-old woman from Sindhudurg. The man didn’t have any comorbidities and had symptoms for 10 days, while the woman had hypertension and symptoms for one day.
The vaccination drives continued with 1,248 persons taking their first dose of the vaccine and 7,096 their second jab.
