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UP breaks day’s count with 292 +ve cases, max in Basti

UP breaks day’s count with 292 +ve cases, max in Basti
Lucknow: As many as 292 fresh novel corona cases (excluding 31 cases in Gautam Budh Nagar recorded on Monday) were reported in the state in the past 24 hours. This was the highest single day count for UP.
The new cases took state tally to 4,941 on Tuesday. UP recorded 135 recoveries, taking the total number of discharges to 2,918 besides five deaths.
The state’s covid toll is now 123.
The migrants’ surge of covid-19 became starker with cases pouring in. About 40% of the total cases belonged to the migrant category.
Basti took the lead with 44 new cases recorded on Tuesday. DM Ashutosh Niranjan confirmed that all the cases were migrant workers quarantined at the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya after their return from Maharashtra. Neighbouring districts of Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Sant Kabir Nagar and Deoria also recorded 14 migrant cases.
In Varanasi, seven of the 14 new cases were migrant labourers. “Six had returned from Mumbai while one came back from Pune,” DM Kaushal Raj Sharma said. All the cases in Ghazipur (7), Mirzapur (5), Chandauli (5), Mau (1), Ballia (1) were migrants.
Health officials said not just east UP, migrant cases were also being reported from western part of the state as well. In Bijnor and Hapur – where 12 and 8 new cases surfaced – all the patients were migrants. In Bulandshahr, 12 out of 14 cases were migrants.
Health officials said one death each was recorded in Meerut, Firozabad, Varanasi, Basti and Jalaun.
Principal, LLRM Medical College, Dr SK Garg said: “A 73-year-old private doctor – with history of cardiac ailment and diabetes – was brought to our centre on Monday evening. Based upon his condition, he was taken on ventilator but he did not survive the complications of the stroke he suffered a week ago. He also contracted covid-19 infection after stroke.”
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Shailvee Sharda

Journalist with the Times of India since August 2004, Shailvee Sharda writes on Health, Culture and Politics. Having covered the length and breadth of UP, she brings stories that define elements like human survival and its struggle, faiths, perceptions and thought processes that govern the decision making in everyday life, during big events such as an election, tangible and non-tangible cultural legacy and the cost and economics of well-being. She keenly follows stories that celebrate hope and life in general.

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