panaji in april a time when goans were staying indoors in their fight against the coronavirus volunteers of mission rabies were busy containing the rabies virus the annual dog vaccination drive was suspended under the lockdown however an emergency ring vaccination was conducted in pernem following the incidence of positive rabies casesit is possible that due to the lockdown dogs are migrating greater distances in search of food and thus increasing the spread of rabies mission rabies wrote in its reportsecuring goas borders to the import of dogs and commencing vaccination of a buffer zone in the panchayats immediately bordering goa is now a top priority the report readbesides pernem two cases were reported in mapusa and a rabid cow in bicholim that monthfollowing a strict covid19 protocol the teams in pernem vaccinated 2935 dogs in may three more rabid dogs were identified and safely removed from the community out of the three positive cases two were from pernem and one was over the goamaharashtra bordera week after the nationwide lockdown in march over 100 feeder passes were issued across goa to animal ngos including mission rabies they were provided with travel passes by the department of animal husbandry and veterinary services after matters related to animal rescue and veterinary care were identified as an essential servicefrom injured animals to maggot infested dogs volunteers of mission rabies have rescued various animals during the lockdown the threemonth report march april and may reveals