Spl teams study Sitapur, Sultanpur’s Covid surge

Lucknow: While the downward trend in daily cases continued on Monday, a surge of 28 new cases in Sitapur district after a gap of several days left officials worried. As many as 96 new cases were reported in the state in the past 24 hours.
Sultanpur is another district of concern. Here, 20 new cases were reported on Sunday while five new cases were recorded on Monday.The two districts were recording cases in ones and twos over the past week.
Reviewing the situation with Team-9, the CM expressed concern and dispatched a team of experts to find what is happening in the two districts.
Health teams from the surveillance unit have reached Sitapur and Sultanpur to collect details. Samples of patients will also be sent for genome sequencing.
Nodal officer Sitapur Dr PK Singh said, “The patients belong to three different areas. None of them has a travel history. Each of the 28 cases was asymptomatic. In fact, some of them were attendants of patients brought to the health facility. Strangely, they tested negative.”
In Sultanpur, 25 cases have surfaced in two days. CMO Dr DK Tripathi said 10 of these 25 belong to the same family while others are scattered over five villages.
“The source of infection in the family of 10 is a youth who returned from Kolhapur while the others belong to other villages. Containment and contact activities were carried out in all places,” he said.
Meanwhile, 96 new cases were reported from 33 districts. Also 42 districts recorded zero cases. The new cases took the total to 17,07,446 of which 16,83,170 (or 98.6%) have recovered. The state recorded two Covid deaths taking the total loss of lives to 22,700.
There are 1,576 active cases now with three districts having zero active cases and another three having more than 100 active cases.