Uttar Pradesh reported 14 new novel coronavirus positive cases during the past 24 hours on Sunday while 37 COVID-19 patients recovered during the same time.
The state witnessed two COVID-19 casualties on Sunday - one each in Prayagraj and Mathura. Till now 22,818 COVID019 patients have died in the state.
But now 21 districts of the state are coronavirus- free. They include Aligarh, Baghpat, Balrampur, Banda, Bijnor, Chitrakoot, Etah, Farrukhabad, Fatehpur, Gonda, Hamirpur, Hardoi, Kanpur Dehat, Mahoba, Mau, Muzaffarnagar, Pilibhit, Rampur, Sant Kabir Nagar, Unnao, and Kanpur Nagar.
Additional Chief Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal said here on Sunday that the COVID-19 recovery rate in the state was 98.6 per cent and the positivity rate was 0.01 per cent.
The number of active cases in the state has come down to less than 300. On Sunday, there were 265 COVID-19 patients in the state, Sehgal said and added that in the tests done during the last 24 hours, not a single new case of infection was detected in 63 districts, while single-digit patients were found in 12 districts.
In the last 24 hours, 2,19,229 Covid samples were tested and till now 7,19,57,964 Covid samples have been investigated in the state.
Sehgal said that the figure of Covid vaccination in the state had crossed 7.04 crore.
“So far, more than 5.91 million citizens have received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine. This is the highest number of vaccinations done in any single state in the country,” he said.