UP tally crosses 19k-mark with 576 fresh cases

Lucknow: UP’s Covid-19 tally crossed the 19,000-mark with 576 new cases in 24 hours. With 19,064 cases, UP ranks number five on an overall scale in the country. Hapur recorded a maximum of 86 entries during the day.
Additional chief secretary, health and family welfare, Amit Mohan Prasad, said that 515 patients were discharged from different hospitals, taking the total number of recoveries to 12,116.“This leaves UP with 6,189 active cases as of now,” he said adding that “the fresh discharges increased the state’s overall recovery rate to 64.13%.”
In addition to this, 19 more persons succumbed to the pandemic infection, taking the total number of casualties to 588. According to the state bulletin, two deaths each were reported in Ghaziabad and Varanasi, while one death each was reported in Agra, Kanpur Nagar, Firozabad, Jaunpur, Basti, Aligarh, Ghazipur, Mathura, Muzaffarnagar, Deoria, Bareilly, Etawah, Jalaun, Etah and Mau.
Of the new cases, double digit entries were recorded in Hapur (86), Gautam Budh Nagar (63), Ghaziabad (34), Aligarh (30), Etawah (27), Lucknow (26), Meerut (25), Kanpur (16), Prayagraj (16), Mathura (15), Chandauli (14), Bareilly (13), Firozabad (12), Varanasi (12), Siddharthnagar (10).
Prasad said that continuing the efforts to assess the coronavirus situation in vulnerable pockets of UP, the samples of fruits and vegetable vendors and taxi and auto-rickshaw drivers would be collected in the next phase. About the status of migrant workers’ surveillance by ASHAs, Prasad said: “Over 18.18 lakh migrants workers have been screened so far. Of these 1,206 were segregated on the basis of flu-like symptoms. Upon testing, 212 were found positive.”
Surveillance activities are underway in 20,753 areas, including 7,164 hotspots and 13,589 non-containment zones. He also said that as per instructions of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Covid help desks have been set up in a large number of hospitals, while more surveillance teams are being formed to achieve the target of one lakh set by the CM.