UP: Covid-19 tally inches close to 50,000 with 2,250 fresh cases

LUCKNOW: The Covid-19 tally for Uttar Pradesh inched closer to 50,000 on Sunday. As many as 2,250 new cases in the past 24 hours took the state tally to 49,399. The day’s list included 394 entries in Lucknow where the total crossed 4,000-mark.
“The number of active infections in the state as on date is 18,256,” said additional chief secretary, health and family welfare, Amit Mohan Prasad on Sunday.He also stated that 1,181 persons recovered and 38 died in the past 24 hours. “Total recoveries have reached 29,256, while 1,146 persons died due to the pandemic,” he said.
Informing that the total number of tests conducted by the state so far was 14,70,426, Prasad said that UP was conducting much more tests than recommended by the WHO. “The WHO recommendation says that 14 tests should be conducted per every lakhpopulation. This translates into 32,000 tests per day for UP. However our average is over 46,000 and in fact we have also crossed the 50,000 tests per day mark recently,” he said.
Prasad said that public participation was the key to the state’s fight against the pandemic. “The biggest contribution one can make is to keep oneself away from Covid by adhering to the prevention protocol,” he said.
The Covid bulletin revealed that of the 38 deaths reported in past 24 hours, eight persons died in Kanpur, while Bareilly saw four deaths. Three deaths were reported in Rampur, while two each were reported in Lucknow, Prayagraj, Sambhal, Gonda andBallia. Districts of Mahoba, Jhansi, Bhadoi, Maharajganj, Etawah, Gorakhpur, Bahraich, Jaunpur, Varanasi, Gautam Budh Nagar and Meerut saw one death each.
In terms of fresh cases, Lucknow was followed by Kanpur Nagar (168), Gautam Budh Nagar (125), Jhansi
(104), Prayagraj (100), Gorakhpur (89), Ghaziabad (79), Varansi (73), Hardoi (68), Shahjahanpur (58) and Sambhal (52).