Panaji: The government has announced a lockdown in Goa from Thursday amid rising Covid cases. Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has announced that a complete lockdown will be imposed in Goa from the evening of April 29 to the morning of May 3. The CM said only essential services and industrial activities would be allowed to operate during the lockdown.
‘The lockdown has been announced in the state from April 29 to May 3. Essential services and industrial activities are permitted. Public transport will be closed, ”he said. He said casinos, hotels, and pubs would be closed during the lockdown and borders would be open for essential service traffic.
The lockdown comes after 2,110 new Covid cases and 31 deaths were reported in Goa. There are currently 81,908 covid cases in the state. The death toll was 16,591. So far 6,32,131 covid tests have been conducted in Goa.
Meanwhile, 3,293 people have died of Covid infection in the last 24 hours in the country. The number of daily covid patients also increased yesterday. A total of 3,60,960 people were infected yesterday.
Covid deaths in India cross two lakh For the first time since the outbreak of the Covid epidemic in India, the daily death toll has crossed 3,000. The total death toll stood at 2,01,187. Covid has so far affected 1,79,97,267 people. The number of active cases is 29,78,709. So far, 14,78,27,367 people have been vaccinated. For the past seven days, the number of Covid victims in India has been over three lakh per day. In Delhi alone, 381 people died due to Covid infection on Tuesday.
Maharashtra had the highest number of Covid patients reported so far yesterday. 66,358. The positive rate in Delhi is 32.72 percent. For the sixth day in a row, the death toll in Delhi has risen to over 300.
In Kerala, Covid-19 was confirmed for 32,819 people yesterday. Outbreaks were reported in Kozhikode 5015, Ernakulam 4270, Malappuram 3251, Thrissur 3097, Kottayam 2970, Thiruvananthapuram 2892, Palakkad 2071, Kannur 1996, Alappuzha 1770, Kollam 1591, Pathanamthitta 1163, Wayanad 968, Kasaragod 906 and Idukki 859.
