The Uttar Pradesh government said that 27 out of the 75 districts of the state were coronavirus-free and the focus was now on ensuring that the virus did not spread to other areas.
Principle Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad told media persons in Lucknow on Sunday that in 17 districts, the virus was yet to surface while in 10 districts there no fresh cases were reported. “Thus, we can say that 27 districts of Uttar Pradesh are coronavirus-free and attempts are underway to bring more districts under this head,” Prasad said
Home to 23 crore people, Uttar Pradesh has 75 districts and of them coronavirus positive cases have been reported from 58 districts with Agra being the worst affected.
Prasad said that the government had increased testing facilities and on Saturday, 3,876 samples were tested. Besides, he added, 316 pool tests of 1,590 persons were also done at nine laboratories in the state.
With this, the state has already completed over 56,000 coronavirus tests so far.
The senior official said that the ratio of coronavirus positive cases in male was very high while there was substantial decrease in the number of patients above 60 years of age.
“The number of male testing positive is 79.15 per cent and that of females is 20.85. Similarly, the percentage of patients over 60 years has also come down to 7.62 on Sunday, while it was 7.93 on Saturday and was around 10 per cent points last week,” he said.
Prasad further said that 11,715 people were quarantined in hospitals while 1601 positive cases were in isolation wards.
“We should take care of our senior citizens and people should adopt social distancing and use face mask to protect themselves from the virus as that is the only way to prevent its spread ,” he said.