43 new Covid-19 cases recorded in UP's Jaunpur

LUCKNOW: After spikes in Basti and Barabanki, Jaunpur recorded glut of 43 new cases on Friday. According to district authorities, all the persons had returned on May 15-16 and had been quarantined since then.
“All the patients have been isolated in the Meerpur level-1 covid hospital. All of them are migrants belonging to different areas of the district including Mungra Badshahpur, Karanjankalan, Badlapur , Machlishaher, Shahganj among others,” DM Dinesh Singh told reporters adding, “the total for the district reached 91 including two deaths and 10 discharges.”
Including cases in Jaunpur, the state recorded 232 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours taking the overall covid score to 5763.Health officials informed that of the total, 2259 were active. As many as 120 discharges were also recorded in different hospitals taking the total number of recovered to 3324.
The state also recorded 14 deaths in different districts taking the total to 152. Though the health officials claimed that the deaths were subject verification in death audit, they recorded five deaths in Agra, two each in Jaunpur and Ayodhya and one each in Aligarh, Unnao and Maharajganj. Officials in different districts informed that the deaths took place on different dates
Principal Secretary, Medical and Health Amit Mohan Prasad said, "Samples of 7,249 people were sent for testing on Thursday and 928 pools were also tested.”
Admitting the problem of rising number of migrant covid cases, he said: “The state government has asked them to strictly follow home quarantine. The village and mohalla nigrani samitis are keeping an eye on them.”
Health officials informed that surveillance work was underway. “We are emphasising on surveillance and over 3.49 crore people have been surveyed by 87,141 teams in Uttar Pradesh," he said adding that references from Aarogya Setu mobile are also be verified.
In terms of cases, Jaunpur was followed by Badaun, Ghazipur and Siddhartnagar with 17, 14 and 12 cases respectively.
Eight cases each were seen in Saharanpur and Etawah while six cases were recorded in Agra, Ghaziabad, Rampur, Prayagraj, Ayodhya, Sant Kabir Nagar and Unnao.
Districts of Gautam Buddha Nagar, Aligarh and Sitapur saw five cases each while Meerut, Firozabad, Amroha, Muzaffarnagar, Fatehpur and Bareilly saw four cases.
Bijnore, Rae Bareli, Gonda, Pilibhit and Bhadohi saw three cases while Kanpur, Lucknow, Moradadbad, Hapur, Bahraich, Pratapgarh and Auraiya reported two cases each.
Basti, Mathura, Maharajganj, Sravasti, Manpuri, Hardoi, Hathras, Chitrakoot, Ballia, Shahjahanpur and Kanpur dehat saw one cases each.