A life is being lost to COVID-19 almost every 11 minutes in Uttar Pradesh. On Sunday evening, 129 people were reported to have succumbed to the deadly novel coronavirus across the state in the last 24 hours despite the night curfew and weekend lockdown.
UP recorded 30,596 new coronavirus positive cases in the last 24 hours. This was a record for the highest number of cases recorded in a day in the state.
Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad said on Sunday that there were 1,91,457 active cases in the state.
Lucknow again recorded the highest number of 5,551 new coronavirus positive cases in the state during the past 24 hours as 22 people died of COVID-19 in the state capital. Lucknow now has 47,700 active cases.
Lucknow was followed by Varanasi where 2,011 new positive cases and 10 COVID-19 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
Kanpur Nagar overtook Prayagraj in the COVID-19 surge on Sunday. Kanpur Nagar reported 1,839 new positive cases while eight people succumbed to the novel coronavirus during the past 24 hours.
The graph of COVID-19 deaths is increasing in Prayagraj too with 15 patients succumbing to the deadly virus in the last 24 hours. The Sangam city reported 1,711 new cases on Sunday.
New infections are increasing unexpectedly in Ghazipur and Jhansi. A total of 954 new positive cases have been reported in Jhansi, 858 in Bareilly, 814 in Ghazipur, 782 in Meerut, 781 in Gorakhpur, 700 in Gautam Buddha Nagar, 590 in Lakhimpur Kheri, 566 in Unnao, 511 in Jaunpur, 486 in Sultanpur and 440 in Agra.
Prasad said that in view of the fast growing infection in the state, instructions had been given to construct 200-bed Covid hospitals in big cities as well as in small districts.