Goa's popular beach villages to go in for partial lockdown? By IANS | 2 Views Goa's popular beach villages to go in for partial lockdown. Image Source: IANS News Panaji, April 28 : Goa's most popular coastal strip, the Calangute-Candolim beach stretch -- extremely popular with beachgoers and tourists -- may go for a partial lockdown, in the wake of increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the area. According to Ports Minister and local MLA Michael Lobo, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant late on Tuesday, gave the go-ahead for the district administration, local elected representatives, health and police officials to meet on Wednesday afternoon to finalise the plan for a partial lockdown of the beach villages of Candolim, Calangute and parts of Arpora, in a bid to stem the Covid tide.