A total of 21 new novel coronavirus positive cases were reported from across Uttar Pradesh in the last 24 hours on Friday, while 27 COVID-19 patients recovered during this period.
With this, there are 329 active cases in the state at present.
Additional Chief Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal said in Lucknow on Friday that at least 18 districts of the state were free from coronavirus. These districts are Aligarh, Baghpat, Banda, Bijnor, Etah, Farrukhabad, Fatehpur, Gonda, Hamirpur, Hardoi, Kanpur Dehat, Mahoba, Mau, Muzaffarnagar, Rampur, Sant Kabir Nagar, Shahjahanpur and Unnao.
During the last 24 hours, 2.32 lakh Covid samples were tested. With this 7.15 crore Covid samples have been investigated in the state so far. In the Covid testing done during the last 24 hours, not a single new case of infection was found in 61 districts, while new cases were reported in single digit in 14 districts.
Sehgal said that the Covid vaccination figure in UP had crossed 6.68 crore as 7.41 lakh people were vaccinated on Thursday while UP carried out a mega vaccination drive across the state on Friday.
So far, more than 5.62 million citizens have received at least one dose of the vaccine, which is the highest number of vaccinations done in any state in the country.