Despite being the most populous state of India, Uttar Pradesh has been able to restrict daily COVID-19 case count below 100 for nearly four weeks and on Monday, 25 fresh cases were reported in the last 24 hours.
“The lesser number of new coronavirus cases is because of the stringent T3 mechanism –‘Trace, Test and Treat’ -- under which more than 2.15 lakh Covid tests were carried out in the last 24 hours. Continuing its positive recovery trend, Uttar Pradesh on Monday also saw as many as 43 COVID-19 patients being discharged, adding up to the recovery of 16,85,449 people so far. Consequently, the daily case positivity rate in Uttar Pradesh too dipped to 0.01 per cent from a high of over 16.84 per cent in April. Case positivity rate is the percentage of samples that test positive out of the total numbers of samples evaluated,” Additional Chief Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal said in Lucknow on Monday.
Sehgal said that as a result of swift measures, micro-planning, alertness, and an aggressive approach to contain the coronavirus, Uttar Pradesh recorded a decline by over 99 per cent in the number of active Covid cases. Since its peak with 3.10 lakh cases on April 30, the active cases have dropped to 570.