This story is from July 10, 2020

Seven more Covid labs to become functional in state next week

With no let up in coronavirus cases, the state government has geared up to start seven new laboratories.
Seven more Covid labs to become functional in state next week
LUCKNOW: With no let up in coronavirus cases, the state government has geared up to start seven new laboratories.
“As many as 1,248 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours, taking the state tally to 32,784. While Covid claimed 17 more lives in the state, 796 recovered from the infection, leaving the state with 10,737 active infections,” said additional chief secretary, health and family welfare, Amit Mohan Prasad.

He said that seven new labs would become functional from the next week. “In a period of 3-4 days, seven more labs will start undertaking coronavirus testing through the RT-PCR method,” Prasad said. The labs will come up in Aligarh, Varanasi, Gonda, Moradabad, Bareilly, Mirzapur and Balrampur Hospital, Lucknow.
“Until now, except for Lucknow, there were no state government run labs in these districts,” he said, adding that total number of Covid-19 samples tested in UP so far was 10.36 lakh.
“The number will rise rapidly over the next few days when information on the rapid antigen tests is included in the master database,” he said.
Of the new cases, 429 or 35% were from Meerut division: Gautam Budh Nagar (172), Ghaziabad (128), Meerut (55), Hapur (34), Bulandshahr (32) and Badaun (8). Lucknow saw 85 cases, Kanpur (45), Varanasi (32), Gorakhpur (16) and Jhansi (27).
The other districts with double digit entries included Ballia (61), Ayodhya (41), Saharanpur (38), Varanasi (32), Sant Kabir Nagar (26), Amroha (26), Moradabad (25), Mathura (24), Aligarh (23), Sambhal (20), Hardoi (20), Azamgarh (19), Unnao (19), Gorakhpur (16), Gonda (14), Bhadohi (14), Bareilly (13), Mau (12), Kushinagar (11), Etawah (11), Bijnor (10) and Jaunpur (10).Three persons died in Kanpur nagar, while two deaths were reported in Rampur. Gautam Budh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Moradabad, Rampur, Barabanki, Azamgarh, Prayagraj, Muzaffarnagar, Kannauj and Mainpuri recorded one death each.
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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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