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Uttar Pradesh reports 89 new Covid-19 cases, one death
Number of districts with zero active cases goes down to seven from 11; the state now has 768 active cases and 508 of them are in home isolation
Uttar Pradesh reported 89 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, 53 more than Tuesday’s 36, according to official data. The only death in the state was reported from Kushinagar.
The maximum cases — 22 — were reported from Kanpur. This was a sharp increase of 20 cases as the district had recorded only two cases the previous day. There were two fresh cases in Lucknow, which has maintained the trend of recording below-five cases per day for the past week.
“The state now has 768 active cases under treatment of which 508 are in home isolation,” said additional chief secretary (medical health) Amit Mohan Prasad at a press conference on Wednesday.
Also, the number of districts that had zero active cases came down from 11 to seven as Bahraich (two cases), Fatehpur (one case), Hamirpur (three cases) and Badaun (one case) reported fresh Covid cases on Wednesday. These districts lost their no-active-case status.
The seven districts that have no active case now are Aligarh, Basti, Etah, Hathras, Kasganj, Mahoba and Shravasti, according to the state health department data.
While there was no new case in 36 districts, all other districts, except Kanpur, reported new cases in single digit.
As many as 1,24,978 RT-PCR Covid samples were sent to labs in the past 24 hours.
The recovery rate in the state is over 98%.
“Lucknow has reported 2,38,560 Covid cases till now of which 2,35,858 have recovered and the recovery rate is 98.86%,” said Dr Abhishek Shukla, secretary general, Association of International Doctors.
“Kerala and Maharashtra are reporting a high number of cases as are some countries. We need to follow the Covid protocol to keep ourselves (safe) and attention should be paid more to elderly, pregnant women, and children and those with comorbidity,” said Prasad.
