817 fresh cases in 24 hrs, 34% in Meerut division

Lucknow: Another spike of 817 new coronavirus positive cases was reported in Uttar Pradesh as a door-to-door campaign in high burden districts of Meerut division began on Thursday.
With 817 new cases, maximum in a single day, the state tally reached 25,150. This was the second time that 817 cases surfaced in a single day. Earlier, on June 19, a similar spike was recorded.Of the new cases, 34% cases (280) belonged to districts of the Meerut division, including Ghaziabad (129), Gautam Budh Nagar (116), Meerut (22), Hapur (6), Bulandshahr (6) and Baghpat (1).
Additional chief secretary, health and family welfare, Amit Mohan Prasad said: “The house-to-house campaign will help in listing the vulnerable population besides providing crucial information on high-risk persons such as elderly and persons with any disease condition.” He said that of the total cases in the state, 17,221 have recovered, while 735 died. “As many as 592 persons discharged, while 17 have died in 24 hours. This leaves the state with 6,869 cases of active infection,” he said, adding that “against a national recovery rate of 59.4%, over 69.3% cases in UP have recovered.”
As per the state bulletin, three deaths were reported in Varanasi, while two were recorded in Jhansi. Agra, Kanpur Nagar, Ghaziabad, Firozabad, Moradabad, Bulandshahr, Ghazipur, Sambhal, Amroha, Bareilly, Baghpat and Etah recorded one death each.
Districts with double digit entries included: Varanasi (49), Bareilly (43), Lucknow (33), Barabanki (31), Mathura (29), Kanpur Nagar (26), Aligarh (26), Ghazipur (23), Gorakhpur (20), Agra (16), Basti (14), Etawah (14), Fatehpur (14), Farrukhabad (12), Hathras (11), Bijnore (11) and Kasganj (10).
Health officials said that surveillance teams in Ghaziabad were able to reach out to over one lakh households on the first day of the drive.
“As many as 2,100 teams would conduct surveys of influenza like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in both containment and non-containment zones of Ghaziabad which accounts for the maximum number of active infections in the state,” said a district official.