Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has stressed upon paying more attention to the districts where 50 to 100 coronavirus positive cases are being reported daily and has directed officials to carry out relief and treatment work actively to control the COVID-19 infection.
The chief minister was presiding over a high-level Unlock review meeting at his official residence here on Tuesday .
The chief minister also directed officials to pay special attention to Lucknow and Kanpur Nagar districts and improve the COVID-19 recovery rate.
He asked the chief secretary to intensively monitor the Covid situation in Lucknow and Kanpur Nagar districts and submit a report to his office.
Directing officials to further strengthen the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC), the chief minister said that it should be operated efficiently.
“The COVID-19 awareness programmes should be carried out actively and intensively. Carry on the cleanliness and sanitation work continuously. Anti-larva chemicals should be sprayed regularly,” he said.
The chief minister said that zero budget farming, which is now called the Indian Natural Farming, should be promoted.
“To ensure that the farmers do not face any problems at the paddy purchase centres, the payment of paddy procurement should be transferred to the bank accounts of the farmers within 72 hours,” Yogi said.
The chief minister said that awareness should be spread against the demerits of burning husk and the pollution caused by it. He also said that the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan should be packed up and carried out intensively.
Directing officials to further increase the revenue of the state, the chief minister directed them to make more and more registrations under the goods and services tax (GST).
Altogether 3,663 fresh cases of COVID-19 were reported on Tuesday in Uttar Pradesh while 4,432 infected people recovered. Now the tally of confirmed positive cases in the state has reached 4,20,937 of which 3,70,753 have recovered and 44,031 are admitted in the hospitals or are in home isolation.
The recovery percentage in the state has also increased to 88.07 per cent.
Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad said now all the government hospitals were functioning normally and were holding OPD regularly.
He said on Monday, 1,56,336 samples were tested and now the total Covid tests in the state had reached 1,10,44,860.
Prasad said there were 20,647 asymptomatic patients in home isolation while 3,513 COVID-19 patients were admitted in private hospitals and the rest were recovering in government-run Covid hospitals.
Over 4.3 lakh surveillance teams have covered 1,32,391 areas of the state and visited 2.62 crore houses to check the health of over 12.99 crore people.