UP: 14 hotspot dists account for 60% active cases, 65% deaths

LUCKNOW: Fourteen districts account for over 60% of the active Covid-19 cases and 65% of deaths reported so far in the state.
According to an official data, there are 6,679 active Covid cases in the state of which 4,012 belong to these 14 districts. Of 660 deaths reported in UP, 429 took place in these districts.

Nine of these districts, including Gautam Budh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Hapur, Aligarh, Bulandshahr, Mathura, Agra and Firozabad, are in western part of the state.The remaining five districts are Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Etawah and Gorakhpur.
Health officials stated that district-specific containment plans are in place and individual monitoring of the situation is under way. “The CM has already instructed to upgrade health facilities in most of these districts besides deputing a senior officer to monitor the situation on daily basis. In addition to this, testing is being ramped up in a big way in these districts,” said a senior officer.
Meanwhile, 606 fresh cases were reported in the state in 24 hours. With this, UP’s tally crossed 22,000-mark to reach 22,393. The state also recorded 11 deaths, taking the total to 660. As per the bulletin, two deaths were reported in Jhansi, while one death each was recorded in Meerut, Gautam Budh Nagar, Kanpur Nagar, Moradabad, Ghazipur, Sambhal, Gorakhpur, Bareilly and Etawah.
Of the fresh cases, Gautam Budh Nagar accounted for the maximum of 82 cases followed by Ghaziabad where 60 fresh cases were reported.
The other districts with double digit entries included Kanpur Nagar (29), Kasganj (24), Etawah (23), Bulandshahr (23), Lucknow (23) Bijnor (21), Meerut (21), Baghpat (17), Varanasi (15), Jhansi (15), Azamgarh (12), Mau (12), Agra (11), Rampur (10), Hapur (10), Mathura (10), Gorakhpur (10) and Bareilly (10).
Additional chief secretary, health and family welfare, Amit Mohan Prasad, said that surveillance activities were underway in the state. He stated that the house-to-house survey slated to begin across the state from July will also include a co-morbidity assessment of patients to create a risk-profile for the state.
“The purpose is to ensure early detection so that minimum loss of lives and weaken the chain,” he said.