Goa reports first death from COVID-19
News | June 22, 2020 14:29 ISTGoa has registered its first death due to COVID-19.
Goa has registered its first death due to COVID-19.
Many Goans watched the annular solar eclipse on Sunday though dark monsoon clouds blocked a clear view at many places.
Goa Board HSSC Results 2020: The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHSE) is very likely to declare the Goa Board 12 Result 2020 by next week. According to the information received by Goa Board President Ramakrishna Samant, the Goa Board HSSC Result can be declared by the coming Monday or Tuesday.
As coronavirus cases continue to rise in the country, a village in North Goa district has self-imposed one-week lockdown as a precautionary measure against the COVID-19 spread.
The main market in Panaji, operated by the municipal corporation, will be shut down for four days after a person operating a bar in the premises tested positive for COVID-19 but couldnt be traced, Mayor Uday Madkaikar said on Thursday.
The government aircraft of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, carrying 14 TrueNet machines from Goa, reached Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport on June 10.
Only 30 hotels have applied to the Goa Tourism Department for permission to re-open, an official said on Tuesday, adding that the state government was in the process of formulating an SOP and guidelines for re-opening of the hospitality sector.
The Goa government on Monday changed its standard operating procedure (SOP) for people entering the state amid the coronavirus outbreak by giving them the option of 14-day home quarantine without testing.
The Goa government has started special Covid-19 test centres to look after patients who are asymptomatic or who have mild symptoms of Covid-19 state Health Secretary Nila Mohanan said, even as Health Department statistics show that 95 per cent of the patients in Goa, who have tested positive for Covid-19 are asymptomatic.
Churches and mosques in Goa have decided to remain closed for some more time, even though the state government has allowed reopening of religious places from Monday as part of the lockdown relaxations.
Despite a green signal by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant for opening up of places of religious worship, as prescribed by the central government's Unlock-1 guidelines, mosques in Goa will continue to be shut.
Despite a green signal by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant for opening up of places of religious worship, as prescribed by the central government's Unlock-1 guidelines, mosques in Goa will continue to be shut, according to an advisory issued on Saturday by the Association of All Goa Muslim Jamaats.
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant informed that churches, temples and other religious places will reopen in the state according to guidelines by Home Ministry.
The southwest monsoon is expected to arrive in Goa on June 6, a senior official from the India Meteorological Department said on Tuesday.
People have been advised not to visit beaches or venture into the sea over the next 48 hours as the Indian Meteorological Department has predicted heavy rainfall in parts of north and south Goa districts with wind speeds of 45-55 kilometres per hour, officials said on Monday.
The handbook which has been prepared by the Goa Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development and the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine of the state's top medical facility, the Goa Medical College, also contains a set of precautionary guidelines for housing societies, educational institutions and government offices.
Goa's tally of active Covid-19 cases has reached 26, after four persons who had travelled to the coastal state from Mumbai via train on Sunday tested positive in preliminary tests.
The Enforcement Directorate has attached 72 flats and villas in Goa worth over Rs 7 crore in connection with a case of cheating foreigners on the promise of getting them prime properties in the state.
All employees of two roadside eateries in Goa had been quarantined after they came in contact with a truck driver, who tested Covid-19 positive, said Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, here on Thursday.
After remaining Corona-free for over a month, Goa has seven new Covid-19 cases, state Health Minister Vishwajit Rane confirmed on Thursday. They include five of a family who returned from Maharashtra.
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