The video shows hundreds of people walking on a road near Baga Beach in North Goa.
A huge crowd is seen at a popular tourist spot in Goa despite a worrying Covid surge, in a video that has been widely shared on Twitter. Goa has seen a sizeable number of tourists since late December with revellers arriving in the coastal state for the Christmas-New Year festival season.
The huge influx of tourists, officials say, has pushed up the COVID-19 positivity rate, which crossed 10 per cent on Sunday.
"This is a Royal welcome to the Covid wave. Mostly tourists," the Twitter user, who goes by the handle @Herman_Gomes, wrote.
The video shows hundreds of people walking on a road near Baga Beach in North Goa.
About 388 people have tested positive in Goa in the past 24 hours, the data released by the Health Ministry showed.
The new cases took the tally in the coastal state to 1,81,570, while one death increased the toll to 3,523. it said.
Thousands of domestic tourists gathered at beaches, pubs and nightclubs in Goa to ring in the New Year, even as the government imposed tougher restrictions to curb the latest variant of the coronavirus.
State authorities have issued directives to hotels, restaurants and casinos to admit only guests with valid vaccination certificates or proof of a negative test result.