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The Goa coronavirus disease (Covid-19) count doubled to 14 on Wednesday as seven new positive cases were reported and all who entered the state by road after the blocking restrictions were partially relaxed.
All seven patients undergo treatment at the dedicated Covid-19 center in South Goa since Thursday morning.
State Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said a rapid preliminary TruNat test performed on all seven people on Wednesday tested positive for Covid-19 and so did the confirmatory tests, the results of which came later in the evening.
Of the seven new positive cases of Covid-19, five belong to a family, which returned to Goa from the Solapur district of Maharashtra, where they had gone before the national blockade restrictions, which applied since March 25 To contain the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak, they were announced.
All five include a husband, a wife, their two children, a son and a daughter, and a granddaughter, who is the youngest Covid-19 patient in the state to date.
The other two positive cases of Covid-19 are truckers: one was returning from Gujarat and the other from Mumbai.
Goa Prime Minister Pramod Sawant told the media that he was in contact with the seven new positive cases of Covid-19.
The five members of a Goa family were taken directly to a quarantine facility on Wednesday. There is no fear of community transmission. Those who came into contact with the drivers will undergo tests, “said the CM.
“Everyone who tested positive for Covid-19 came from outside Goa,” he added.
Before Wednesday, Goa reported its last positive Covid-19 case on April 3, and the state was declared a Green Zone on April 17 after the patient recovered. The state has yet to report a Covid-19 related death.
In addition to the stranded people from Goa who return to the state in their own vehicles, the state administration makes sure to repatriate and transport the rest, who do not have many means of transportation.
On Wednesday, 60 Ghatprabha students from Karnataka were taken back to Goa on state buses and another 26 returned home from Kochi and Mangaluru. On Thursday, 24 more will leave Bangalore for Goa.
“In the past few days, 24 buses have brought 241 stranded people to Goa from Kasargod in Kerala; Mangaluru, Bengaluru, Belgaum, Hubli, Dharwad, Khanapur, Jamboti and Gadag in Karnataka; Navi Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra; Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat in Gujarat and Dadra & Nagar Haveli, “the state government said in a statement.
In total, 4,476 people stranded in Goa from Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh have gone to their respective states on four Shramik special trains in recent days, he added.
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