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Corona tests up by 650 times since March: Govt

Corona tests up by 650 times since March: Govt
Lucknow: State health officials on Sunday shared with pride that the testing capacity in UP has gone up by 650 times since March.
“Against the capacity of conducting 60-odd tests in the beginning of March, on an average we are now testing 40,000 tests every day. This is about 650 times rise since March,” said additional chief secretary, health and family welfare, Amit Mohan Prasad.
After the addition of seven new labs, UP now has 41 centres to conduct Covid-19 tests.
This is in addition to the availability of Trunat machines in every district and medical college of the state.
Claiming that 39,623 tests were conducted in the past 24 hours while the total number of tests conducted so far is 11,56,089, he said: “Efforts are underway to increase the capacity further in wake of the rising cases.”
As many as 1,388 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours, taking total to 36,480. State capital Lucknow accounted for a maximum of 165 entries. The number of discharges reported since Saturday was 645 taking the total to 23,334.
The state also recorded 21 Covid-19 deaths. Three deaths were reported in Kanpur Nagar and two each in Prayagraj, Bareilly and Muzaffarnagar. Besides, Kushinagar, Chandauli, Jhansi, Balrampur,Sultanpur, Sambhal, Aligarh, Basti, Moradabad, Lucknow, Meerut and Agra recorded one death each.
Among the fresh cases, districts of the Meerut division, including Ghaziabad (142), Gautam Budh Nagar (64), Meerut (59), Baghpat (15), Bulandshahr (14) and Hapur (13) accounted for 22% (307) of the total cases in the state.
Fifteen districts that saw over 25 cases included: Gorakhpur (73), Kanpur (59), Jaunpur (44), Bareilly (40), Mainpuri (42), Varanasi (39), Sambhal (38), Jhansi (38), Kushinagar (33), Prayagraj (32), Unnao (31), Moradabad (28),Mathura (27), Deoria (26) and Chandauli (26).
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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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