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Uttar Pradesh: GB Nagar leads biggest corona surge, tally 16,600

Uttar Pradesh recorded 817 novel coronavirus infection positive cases in 24 hours, taking the total to 16,645. This was about 30% more than 630 cases reported on Thursday.
Uttar Pradesh: GB Nagar leads biggest corona surge, tally 16,600
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LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh recorded 817 novel coronavirus infection positive cases in 24 hours, taking the total to 16,645. This was about 30% more than 630 cases reported on Thursday.
The surge is largely attributed to Gautam Budh Nagar where a whopping 151 cases were recorded. With this the total for NCR district reached 1,351. The neighbouring Ghaziabad saw 36 cases which took the total to 774.
In fact, the 10 western UP districts account for 41% (340) of the day’s load.
Additional Chief Secretary, health and family welfare, Amit Mohan Prasad said: “The state recorded 817 new cases in 24 hours, while the number of persons discharged was 358. This leaves the state with 6,092 active cases.”
Prasad also stated that while the total number of recovered persons reached 9,995, the Covid death toll had crossed 500-mark. “A total of 507 people have died so far. This includes the 19 deaths reported in 24 hours.”
According to the official bulletin, five deaths were reported in Ghaziabad followed by Gautam Budh Nagar where four persons died. Agra and Kanpur, which account for the second and third largest chunk of cases in the state, saw three deaths each. Meerut, Bulandshahr, Ambedkarnagar and Etah saw one death each.
The health department attributes the rising number of cases to the state's aggressive policy. “In all, 17,221 tests were conducted in the state since Thursday, while the number of total tests reached 5.32 lakh,” he said.
The other districts with double digit entries included: Kanpur (46), Lucknow (31), Hapur (31), Bulandshahr (30), Barabanki (27), Saharanpur (26), Muzaffarnagar (21), Ghazipur (20), Sultanpur (20), Mathura (19), Budaun (18), Varanasi (17), Sambhal (17), Rampur (16), Agra (15), Firozabad (15), Mainpuri (15), Shahjahanpur (14), Etawah (14), Jaunpur (13), Amroha (13), Pilibhit (11), Chitrakoot (10) and Unnao (10).
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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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