Goa, July 7 -- But that is where the catch lies. In the first place, until Goa was a Green Zone, it had a lot to do with the fact that only those who had a travel history and exhibited the comorbidities critical to COVID, were examined for COVID-19 when they reported with some illness. A community survey was conducted as an aid to understand the possible prevalence of COVID 19. But the community survey, which the Government claimed was successful despite the opposition to it, was not followed by the required level of testing. To date, one does not know what was the impact of the community survey and how it helped as a strategy to prevent or redress the prevalence of COVID-19 transmission.
The constant refrain was that the cases of those fo...