PANAJI: Five more Covid-19 fatalities were reported on Thursday pushing the toll to 3,124. As many as 97 people tested positive and 129 cured, bringing down the active caseload to 1,376.
The state’s daily average case positivity rate marginally reduced to 2.58%. The positivity was around 3% last week. The recovery rate was 97.36% on Thursday.
Five deaths were reported from Goa Medical College (GMC). A 52-year-old woman from Bardez, the youngest fatality of the day, had comorbidities, including chronic kidney disease. She died after 10 days in the hospital.
A 73-year-old woman, who was admitted to GMC after contracting the virus, died after five days of treatment. She had cancer among other comorbidities.
Three men — a 72-year-old from Bicholim, an 82-year-old from Calangute and a 90-year-old from Porvorim — all having comorbidities, died after treatment of about eight days.
On Thursday, 18 patients required hospitalisation and five were discharged.
The Margao urban health centre saw its caseload increase to 99, while the tally of the Ponda and Cortalim, the two bigger centres, had 75 and 72 active cases, respectively.
Sanguem, Vasco and Ponda have relatively more active cases, but fewer than Ponda, Cortalim and Margao.
In South Goa, the case tally of Shiroda, Navelim, Marcaim, Loutolim and Canacona has dropped below 30. In North Goa, Panaji’s caseload was 70 and that of Siolim 71, the two centres with the high caseload, and Mayem, had the lowest case tally of eight.
During the day, little over 9,000 doses were administered.
