Panaji:
Eleven people who travelled to Goa in the Delhi-Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express train on Saturday, have tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of such cases in the state to 66, officials said on Sunday.
As per the health bulletin issued by the state government on Sunday night, the number of the active cases is 47 while 19 patients have been discharged so far.
Meanwhile, three patients undergoing treatment at the ESI hospital have been sent to a quarantine facility after their discharge.
A total of 12,499 samples have been tested in Goa so far.
As many as 263 passengers, who alighted from the Rajdhani Express at Madgaon railway station in South Goa district on Saturday, were tested. Of them, reports of 11 came out positive in the TrueNat (rapid) tests, a senior health department official said earlier in the day.
“Repeat tests of the 11 people at the virology lab of state-run Goa Medical College and Hospital also came out positive, he said.
All the eleven passengers, including a five-year-old boy, have been shifted to Margao-based ESI hospital, which is the designated facility for treatment of COVID-19 patients, the official said.
The COVID-19 figures in Goa are as follows: Positive cases 66, new cases 11, deaths nil, discharged cases 19, active cases 47, samples tested till date 12,499.
