Yogi Adityanath says UP close to defeating Covid-19, claims model worthy of study

UP chief minister said that state’s Covid management had justifiably come in for ‘huge praise’ from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and there should be a research paper on the matter.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said Uttar Pradesh was on course to victory after a decisive battle against Covid-19. He claimed this had become possible due to effective health management and exemplary teamwork, he said in Gorakhpur, according to a state government statement.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath was full of praise for the state’s Covid-19 containment strategy. (ANI Photo/File)

He also said UP’s Covid management had justifiably come in for huge praise from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and there should be a research paper on the matter.

“We are about a month away from the Covid vaccine, while the state has already contained the pandemic,” he said as the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony of the ‘Healthy Eastern Uttar Pradesh- An Initiative’ drive at AIIMS, Gorakhpur.

He pointed out that while the Covid death rate in developed countries like the United States was 8% and between 3-5% for some other states of India, but it was as low as 1.04% in Uttar Pradesh. But for some setbacks, the figure would have been below 1% in the state, he said.