panaji denying rumours linking a recent death in a state isolation ward to covid19 chief minister pramod sawant said people admitted in the isolation wards are tested for the virus multiple times and there was no basis to call it death of a suspected covid19 patientinsisting that there has not been a single coronavius death in the state sawant on wednesday said i want to clarify that the state government will not conceal any confirmed novel coronavirus positive caseno matter who tests positive there will be no hiding the case even as an exception in the interest of the state a while ago when we tried to test a former minister people made an issue out of that too noone is immune to covid19 we are testing everyone as needed sawant told reporters people wrongly assume that everyone admitted to isolation ward are covid patients and if one of them passes away news spreads that he or she has died due to covid people should not have this misunderstanding if a suspect tests positive then he will not be kept in isolation ward he will be immediately taken to the covid hospital facility said sawanthe said that the death of a youth from south goa is being wrongly linked to covid19he was tested once in pune and three times in goa if he happened to be positive then there would have been other positive cases linked to him we also worry about the staff and the safety of the state we have no suspected covid death in goa just because a death took place in the isolation ward it does not mean it is a covid death the death becomes a suspected covid death if the death happens before we can test the patient then we can say suspected death said sawantfor a person admitted to isolation ward the first test is carried out within two hours and this is followed up with a confirmatory test he said when a patient is tested four times and the test comes negative then how it is a suspected covid case in the case of the south goa mans death all members of his family were also tested and are negative for the virus said the chief minister