MARGAO/PANJIM, July 29 -- In an almost unnoticed section of the daily health bulletin issued by the Directorate of Health Services daily, there is an alarming figure - the number of test results awaited. This number now almost touching 6000, effectively means that the figures of positive and negative cases given out each day is a minuscule of the whole ecosystem of tests conducted. So the results we are getting are only a fragment of the tests actually conducted. Moreover, that day's results are actually a part of the previous backlog.

The Health Minister Vishwajit Rane had said on June 14."We are ready for any kind of spike. Everyone is saying that there will be a spike in June-July but that is just saying. On the ground we are ready" V...