PANAJI: Goa reported 229 fresh infections, nine mortalities and 258 recoveries, taking active case case count to 2,727 on Thursday.
The state’s case positivity rate reduced to 6% while the recovery rate stood at 96.50%.
The mortality count reached 3,023.
Of the nine deaths, six died at the Goa Medical College (GMC) and three at the South Goa District Hospital (SGDH).
Two men — a 76-year-old from Mormugao and a 47-year-old — died within a few hours of being brought to the hospital in a critical state.
Both were unwell for a few days before and had not undergone the Covid test earlier.
Three men in their mid-fifties were among those who died.
A 52-year-old from Tiswadi and who did not have any comorbidity died after three weeks of treatment at GMC.
A 54-year-old man from Sindhudurg, whose immediate cause of death was stated as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with Mucormycosis with septic shock, having three comorbidities, died within 24 hours of being shifted to GMC.
On Thursday, as many as 35 patients were hospitalised, and 30 discharged.
In South Goa, the tally of active cases of centres at Navelim and Balli dropped below 50 and, in North Goa, that of Aldona, Colvale, Mayem, and Valpoi.