UP’s average of Covid test nears 27,000 per day, CM Yogi Adityanath pushes for 30,000

LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to meet the target of 30,000 Covid-19 tests per day at the earliest even as the state has registered has registered an average of 26,993 tests every day for last three days.
Officials said the target of 30,000 tests per day would be achieved by next week.
“UP is now consistently reporting more than 25,000 Covid tests per day with about 24,186 samples taken for testing in last 24 hours,” additional chief secretary (home) Awanish Awasthi said.
“Till now, UP has conducted 8,87,997 tests and we are rapidly increasing numbers. We will reach the target of 30,000 tests per day soon. At least 25,918 samples were tested on Sunday,” he said.
Awasthi said maximum 1,35,626 samples have been tested at KGMU followed by RMLIMS (50,161), SGPGI (70,695) and Birbal Sahni Institute (11,865). Lucknow accounts for more than 30% of total tests conducted in the state.
Other institutes in various parts of the state carrying out testing include LLRM in Meerut (60,264), IMS-BHU in Varanasi (58,855), GSVM in Kanpur (45,996), MLNMC in Prayagraj (38,829), UPRISM in Saifai (38,357), NIB in Noida (36,993), RMRC in Gorakhpur (34,568), BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur (26,544), MLBMC in Jhansi (32,941), JN Medical College in Aligarh (30,498), SNMC in Agra (29,866), IVRI in Bareilly (17,391) and GIMS in Greater Noida (13,040).
Chief secretary RK Tiwari said along with testing in government hospitals, private hospitals had the capacity of about 8,000 tests per day which the government had not used so far.
Officials said the weeklong special screening programme in Meerut division was on in full swing with special attention on Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad districts.