The biggest spike in coronavirus infection in Uttar Pradesh was reported on Sunday with 6,233 more testing positive across the state, taking the number of confirmed cases to 2,25,632.
The COVID-19 death toll too mounted to 3,423 with 67 casualties in the last 24 hours.
The positivity rate in the state in August has been 4.7 per cent, the recovery rate 74.25 per cent and the fatality rate 1.52 per cent.
Among the positive cases, 70 per cent are males and 30 per cent females.
Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad said here on Sunday that there were 54,666 active cases in the state while the number of recovered patients was 1,67,543, included 4,802 discharged from hospitals on Sunday.
He said that on Saturday, 1,39,454 sample were tested and now the total Covid tests in the state had reached 54,90,354 so far.
Prasad said 27,364 asymptomatic COVID-19 patients were in home isolation, which was over 50 per cent of the total active cases. Besides, he said, there were 2,463 COVID-19 patients in private hospitals, 256 in semi-paid hotels and the rest in government-run Covid hospitals.
At present, there are 16,462 containment zones in the state in which 40,658 positive cases are residing. In these containment zones, there are over 14.75 lakh houses in which over 85.22 lakh people are living.
