Panaji: Director of Health Services Dr.
Ira Almeida said on Tuesday that even though Goa has begun to see a decline in cases since last week, can not be said to be the third wave is a wave.
“Cases have been down (but) also the number of tests,” he said.
“We have to wait for a week to see if the case is actually dropping.
Fewer cases have been reported in recent days, so maybe curves covid is a plateau.” If the number of tests performed per day are in the same range as last week , Almeida said, it can be concluded with certainty that the case has decreased.
“Today (Tuesday), the number of more positive than yesterday,” he said.
Typically, Goa saw fewer cases on Sundays and holidays, when most of the testing center is closed.
In the last three or four days, the number of tests per day ranged from 3,000 to 5,000, while the previous 7,000 to 8,000 or more tests performed per day.
On Tuesday, 1,794 new cases recorded for the 5597 test, while on Sunday, 4,273 tests were performed and 1,387 tested positive.
After Januari10, the average of new infections is the nation state as the state recorded 3,635 sharpest rise in cases.
The numbers have started to drop since Friday, and the daily case counts rise under the 2,000 mark on Sunday, according to the penis in the test.
The emergence of the highest day of the third wave as far as this is the case on 19 January 3936.
Experts estimate that in Goa, the third wave will decrease by the end of January or the last, in the first week of February.
As stated by the health services, the third wave began in Goa on December 28.
A second dose for children from 31 January: DHS Directorate of Health Services will begin to vaccinate children in the age group 15-18, with the second dose from 31 January.
About 80% of children who are eligible have been vaccinated with the first dose so far, Director Dr.
Ira Almeida told TOI.
Almeida said that they had received the stock to start managing a second dose for children who qualify, which will be given four weeks after the first dose.
Regarding dose of prudence, he said, they have received overwhelming response from senior citizens, and 30% have taken the third dose.
On Tuesday, more than 2,000 people were vaccinated in the general category, 772 are given a dose of prevention, and 21 children their first dose.
DHS: Can’t say for sure whether the third wave decreases
