Uttar Pradesh: Corona count jumps to over 1,300 in a day

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh recorded its biggest single day spike of 1,346 Covid cases on Tuesday, that pushed the state tally to 30,340.
The virus claimed 18 more lives in the state in last 24 hours, taking the toll to 827. Meanwhile, 518 more patients recovered from the infection, with this the total number of persons discharged is now 19,627.
“At present, 9,514 active cases are undergoing treatment in UP,” said additional chief secretary, health and family welfare, Amit Mohan Prasad.
Health officials said that in terms of overall burden, UP is ranked fifth in the country while in terms of active cases its rank is seventh.
As per the state bulletin, hightest number of cases (196) were recorded in Lucknowin last 24 hours. However, confusion prevailed over the situation in Lucknow as the district health officer confirmed only 84 cases.
Meerut division districts accounted for 400 cases – Ghaziabad (149), Gautam Budh Nagar (115), Meerut (51), Baghpat (47) Bulandshahr (22) and Hapur (21) – which is about 30% of the total cases reported in the past 24 hours.
More than 20 cases were reported in 13 districts. The list included Bareilly (51), Jhansi (47), Kanpur (40), Moradabad (36), Gorakhpur (36), Ballia (36), Varanasi (29), Prayagraj (28), Muzaffarnagar (27), Barabanki (26), Aligarh (24), Kannauj (21) and Sonbhadra (21).
Three deaths were reported in Kanpur while two were reported in Varanasi. GB Nagar, Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Firozabad, Moradabad, Rampur, Aligarh, Prayagraj, Mathura, Bareilly, Etawah, Mirzapur and Hamirpur recorded one death each.
9 lakh samples tested and counting
Health officials stated that two mile stones in terms of testing of coronavirus samples were achieved in the past 24 hours. “While the target set by CM of conducting 30,000 samples per day was achieved, 9 lakh samples were tested in UP to reach the tally of 9,22,049. The state’s priority is on testing which will be intensified further once the door to door survey is completed,” said Amit Mohan Prasad. He added that the capacity will be scaled up further once the BSL labs get functional.
The use of rapid test kits and covid-19 screening through use to TruNat and CBNAAT will also continue.