During the Covid-19 pandemic, lifeguards in Goa have evolved a new protocol for management of persons rescued from drowning off the state's beaches, by doing away with the traditional but infection transmission prone mouth-to-mouth resuscitation protocol, with the help of a new technology.

"The new cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) protocol has changed. Globally, hands-only CPR is recommended which includes compression of the chest but no rescue breaths," according to Ravi Shankar, Head of Operations at Drishti Marine, a private lifeguard agency responsible for manning the beaches in the tourist state.