After consistently touching the over 5,000-mark for the last more than a month, Friday brought good news for Uttar Pradesh as the number of COVID-19 cases declined, bringing relief among the officials as the recovery rate climbed to 82 per cent.
Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad said 4,674 fresh coronavirus positive cases were reported on Thursday while 4,922 people were discharged, taking the recovery rate to 82.19 per cent.
Now the tally of confirmed coronavirus cases in the state has gone up to 3,84,277.
“There are 61,300 active cases in the state while 3,17,611 COVID-19 patients have recovered, including 4,922 people discharged from hospitals on Thursday,” Prasad said.
On Wednesday, 1,53,458 Covid sample were tested in the state. “There are 31,751 asymptomatic patients in home isolation and 3,644 patients in private hospitals and 185 in the semi-paid hotels while the rest are in government-run Covid hospitals,? he said.
The additional chief secretary said that over 3.78 surveillance teams covered 1,18,865 areas in the state and visited 2.48 crore houses and checked the health of over 12.32 crore people.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to pay attention in 16 Covid-prone districts where the daily increase of the patients is over 100.
He has asked officials to deploy a special team to monitor the arrangements and to strengthen contact tracing in districts like Lucknow, Kanpur Nagar, Gorakhpur, Prayagraj, Noida, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Moradabad, Jhansi Saharanpur and Varanasi.
He also asked the hospitals to link with virtual ICUs so that the critical patients could get more benefit. He said the high risk people should be tested immediately.