Noida's active Covid case count goes past 10,000, the highest in Uttar Pradesh

GHAZIABAD: With 1,626 new infections, the number of active Covid cases in Gautam Budh Nagar crossed the 10,000-mark on Thursday. The district's active Covid tally currently stands at 10,718, the highest for any district in Uttar Pradesh.
In neighbouring Ghaziabad, 1,680 new Covid cases were recorded on the day, which pushed the active figures' count to 9,179.
While 14,765 new cases were reported across the state in the past 24 hours, the active cases jumped to 71,022. The official state bulletin indicated that GB Nagar and Lucknow accounted for the maximum burden of active cases with more than 10,000 such infections each, followed by Ghaziabad.
Together with Meerut, the four districts accounted for 54% of the total active case burden in the state, the data indicated.
An analysis of testing data for the past month indicated the sample positivity rate of RT-PCR tests in GB Nagar increased from 0.5% on December 15 to 36.3% on January 11.
Overall positivity rate (RT-PCR and rapid antigen tests) increased from 0.1% on December 15 to 26.7% on January 11.
The overall sample positivity rate had crossed 1% on December 29 and since then has been on the rise.
It crossed 8% on January 4 from 4.02% a day earlier, 11% on January 5 and 20% on January 7% and since then hovering over 25%.
Meanwhile, Ghaziabad health department data indicated that more than 1,000 children have been hit by the pandemic in this wave. Of them, 319 children are in the age group of one to 10 years and 665 others are aged between 11 and 17 years. At least 12 babies below one year's age have also been affected by the virus.
Officials, however, said most children have recovered at home and did not require hospitalization.
Patients aged between 30 and 40 years were the most hit with more than 3,200 people affected so far, they added. Seven hundred people above 60 years have been affected, they said.
So far, 31 patients are admitted at various hospitals in Ghaziabad, while around 80 others are being treated in hospitals across Noida.
Over 100 patients from other districts are also under treatment at 16 private hospitals in the trans-Hindon region.
Ghaziabad district surveillance officer Dr RK Gupta said he has sought reports about the patients from the hospitals.