Covid-19 cases have started showing a declining trend if figures are anything to go by. In the past 24 hours, Uttar Pradesh registered 602 positive cases while 1,030 patients recovered from the infection.
“Figures indicate that the Covid cases are on the decline in UP, and the measures taken by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to control the pandemic are paying off,” a government spokesman said here on Tuesday.
He said the Yogi government ensured increased testing amidst rising Covid cases and also strengthened the health infrastructure of Uttar Pradesh during the prolonged spell of the pandemic. As a result, there has been a rapid decline in the Covid cases.
According to the data received from the Health department, the number of active cases in UP is 4,257. The positivity rate has also reduced to 1.63 per cent, while the recovery rate has reached 98.7 per cent.
Since the beginning of the pandemic till now, a total of 21,40,509 people have been infected with COVID-19 in UP and 21,12,578 of them recovered. In the last 24 hours, 17 districts of Uttar Pradesh did not register a single Covid case. Additionally, only one case each was reported in nine districts while 11 districts reported only two cases each.
Besides, two to nine cases were reported in 24 districts, indicating that the number of positive cases in 61 districts remained negligible. However, Gautam Buddh Nagar reported the maximum number of cases at 107, followed by Lucknow (104), Ghaziabad (64), and Meerut & Gorakhpur (20 each).
As many as 48,343 tests were conducted in various laboratories across the state in the past 24 hours. Till April 24, 100 per cent of people in the state have received both vaccine doses. In addition, 46,038,324 people have received precautionary doses.
In total, 3,48,000,531 vaccination doses have been administered in the state. Hundred per cent of the children aged 15 to 17 years have received the first dose and 94.4 per cent the second.
Besides, 100 per cent of the children aged 12 to 14 years have taken the first dose and 93.10 per cent the second.