Yogi asks for more Covid-19 tests in Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh has achieved a milestone of testing over one lakh and 76 thousand people in a day. Till date the state has conducted one crore, seventeen lakh, twenty six thousand and 75 tests for the coronavirus disease.

Lucknow: Expressing satisfaction over the increased testing for Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the state authorities to do more testing for the disease that has disrupted the whole world and killed lakhs of people across the globe.

The state government has achieved a milestone of testing over one lakh and 76 thousand people in a day.

Till date UP has conducted one crore, seventeen lakh, twenty six thousand and 75 tests for the coronavirus disease.

The Chief Minister, after a meeting of the government officials at his official residence here, directed them to test more and more and ensure better medical facilities to people.

He also asked them to make people aware of everything related to Covid-19. The Chief Minister directed the authorities to ensure proper hygiene in all hospitals of the state.

Meanwhile, the COVID-19 death toll in the state rose to 6,353 on Saturday with 60 more fatalities, while 3,099 fresh cases took the infection tally to 4,33,712, sources said.

The number of active COVID-19 cases has seen a continuous fall and it has now come down to 40,210, they said. Of these, 18,654 are presently in home isolation and 3,116 are in private hospitals.

The number of those who have fully recovered from the infection and are getting discharged from hospitals has now risen to 3,87,149, taking the recovery rate to 89.26 per cent, an official said, adding that so far, 6,353 people have succumbed to the virus.

A health bulletin said Lucknow reported the highest number of 317 fresh cases followed by Prayagraj with 161 cases, Ghaziabad and Varanasi with 154 each and Meerut with 153 cases among others.

Eight deaths were from Lucknow on Saturday, four each from Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Meerut and Azamgarh and three from Prayagraj, the bulletin said.

The official said an analysis of over 6,000 deaths has found that 71 per cent of those who died were men and 29 per cent were women, while 63 per cent people who died belonged to the urban areas and 37 hailed from rural areas.

He said 74 per cent were those who died had some kind of comorbidity.

(With inputs from agencies)