panaji goa reported 126 fresh infections one mortality and 134 recoveries taking the active caseload to 1779 over the last 24 hours the case positivity rate dropped to 3 on thursday as against 4 on wednesdaythe toll rose to 3103 with one death a 90yearold man from ponda died at south goa district hospital after two days of treatment while goas weekly case positivity rate has been below 5 state epidemiologist dr utkarsh betodkar said people need to be more careful as curfew conditions are relaxedthe weekly case positivity is 364 as against 417 a week before while there has been a plus and minus in daily infections betodakar said they havent noticed any big rise in any area and if there is the government will be immediately notified our fervent request to people who are yet to get vaccinated is please do at the earliest people should continue to take measures as restrictions are slowly being lifted betodakar saidsouth goa has more active cases with margao ponda and cortalim having high caseloads the estimated third wave is likely to hit in augustseptember experts say the state will have a buffer if a large section of the population is vaccinated provided no new variant deadlier than delta makes its waythe state government has set a target to vaccinate the 115 lakh adult population with the first dose by the end of this month as of wednesday 748 lakh people were partially vaccinated and 189 lakh with both doses