{"id":14774,"date":"2020-08-13T16:36:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14774"},"modified":"2020-08-13T16:36:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:36:56","slug":"goa-tops-in-number-of-covid-19-tests-per-million-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14774","title":{"rendered":"Goa tops in number of COVID-19 tests per million: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"the-post\">\n<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Covid-19-test-sample-1200by900-freeuse-780x470.jpg\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"Covid-19 test sample\"\/><figcaption class=\"single-caption-text\"><span class=\"fa fa-camera\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/> Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Panaji:<\/strong>\u00a0Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane has said the state topped in the country in terms of the number of COVID-19 tests conducted per million people.<\/p>\n<p>Till Tuesday evening, 1,53,792 tests were conducted in Goa. So far, 9,444 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the coastal state, as per official figures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cIn our constant endeavour to test maximum people in the state for COVID-19, we are happy to announce that Goa has yet again topped amongst all states in the country for the number of tests per million population with 94,773 tests per million population\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>Rane tweeted on Tuesday night<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In our constant endeavour to test maximum people for COVID-19, we are happy to announce that Goa has yet again topped amongst all states for number of tests per million population with 94773 tests per million population. Proud of our team Goa for their dedication and hard work. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XFFESuTGH7\">pic.twitter.com\/XFFESuTGH7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 VishwajitRane (@visrane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visrane\/status\/1293225340962082816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div><figcaption>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visrane\">VishwajitRane<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u201cProud of our team Goa for their dedication and hard work,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far, 86 people have died of COVID-19 in Goa and there are 2,878 active cases in the state as of now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google_news_bar\"> Subscribe us on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMNfwhQsw6qSDAw?oc=3&amp;ceid=IN:en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Google News\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-news\" alt=\"The Siasat Daily - Google News\" width=\"130\" height=\"35\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/themes\/sahifa\/images\/googlenews.svg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-news\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/themes\/sahifa\/images\/googlenews.svg\" alt=\"The Siasat Daily - Google News\" width=\"130\" height=\"35\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/www.siasat.com\/goa-tops-in-number-of-covid-19-tests-per-million-minister-1945279\/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representational Image Panaji:\u00a0Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane has said the state topped in the country in terms of the number of COVID-19 tests conducted per million people. Till Tuesday evening, 1,53,792 tests were conducted in Goa. So far, 9,444 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the coastal state, as per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Covid-19-test-sample-1200by900-freeuse.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}