Panaji: Days after stating that community transmission of coronavirus might have set in in Goa, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday retracted his statement.Sawant said the "virus is not in the air" in Goa and that health authorities can identify trajectory of infection."I might have said in the past that it's a community transmission in Goa.
But I enquired and was told that it was not so..the virus is not in the air," the CM said.Initially a green zone, the number of cases in Goa rose steadily since the first week of May.
As of now, the number of cases has crossed the 1,000-mark with four deaths.Sawant said the infection passed on from one person to another."We need to be alert.