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Goemkarponn desk A male dead body was on Tuesday evening found floating in the water near the Kahrewado fishing jetty Locals who saw the body later alerted the Vasco police station Vasco police arrived on the site and fished out the body While it is assumed that the body could be of some migrant labourer working on board some fishing vessels , sources in the Vasco police stations said that the identity of the deceased was not known till late evenings A local resident said that the male appears to be in the age group of 30 to 40 years…

Goemkaponn Desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant today said that Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawala has agreed to send 5 lakh doses of Covishield to Goa on priority basis. “I personally spoke to SII CEO Adar Poonawala and he has agreed to give the state 5 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine,” said CM He said that 5 lakh doses will be initially purchased from Serum Institute of India, while altogether 15 lakh doses will be procured for a cost of Rs 60 crores. Centre had decided that everyone above the age of 18 to be eligible…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Goa today reported 2110 new COVID-19 positive cases. While there 748 recoveries and 31 deaths reported today. As per DHS bulletin, 5 deaths were reported at South Goa District Hospital, 23 deaths at Goa Medical College (GMC), 1 death at ESI, 1 death at North Goa Private Hospital and 1 death at South Goa Private Hospital. The active cases now stand at 16,591, the total death till today is 1086 while the samples tested in last 24 hours is 5548. The recovery rate is 78.42 percent.

Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant today held a meeting with Goa Police Personnel via video conferencing regarding enforcement of Covid-19 norms in the state. Interacting with the Police force during the meeting held at his Official residence Altinho, Panaji the Chief Minister directed the Cops to ensure that the Covid norms are strictly enforced and implemented in the state to curb the spread of deadly Corona virus disease. He also directed them to initiate stern action against those violating the guidelines issued and restrictions imposed under Section 144. The Chief Minister further informed that imposition of lockdown badly affects the…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: The situation for the residents of Canacona nowadays is far worse than getting trapped between a devil and the deep sea, the devil here is the unprecedented spread of Covid-19 cases in recent weeks and the deep sea is the different types of taxes they are supposed to pay in spite of their income taking a nose dive since last more than a year now. Talking about Covid-19 situation in the taluka it was not so bad till a few weeks ago and was under control but the businesses had taken a biting on its back since…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: It’s a fact that there are more than 300 active Covid-19 cases in Canacona, most of whom have opted for home isolation, but what has surprised and angered everyone here is a patient inspite of he knowing that he is putting to risk others lives visited a local pharmacy the video of which gone viral since Tuesday. In the 50 second video clip which is downloaded from the CCTV camera of the pharmacy, a man enters the pharmacy, asks the staff for medicine and tells them to sanitize their hands as he is Covid-19 patient. When the…

At a time when every Goan has one thing in mind and that is COVID19 pandemic, here we have a political party, the ruling government and the Chief Minister whose only aim is winning elections. Yes, this sounds strange but true, on Monday 38 people lost their precious lives due to COVID19. There is acute shortage of Oxygen and other medication in the State but yet our Government is simply taking cosmetic measures of conducting virtual meetings, photo-ops etc etc. The Bharatiya Janata Party as usual won yet another elections in the State and what a day they chose to…