Lucknow reports 4,444 new infections
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The surge in novel coronavirus infection has taken a frightening proportion as Uttar Pradesh has recorded 15,353 positive cases and 67 fatalities in the past 24 hours, forcing the state administration to enforce restrictions which include closing down of schools and penalising people not following Covid guidelines.
In more than 20 districts, the administration has strictly enforced the corona curfew from 9 pm to 6 am. Three districts of Uttar Pradesh reported infections are four digits in the last 24 hours while in 26 districts, the number of new positive cases is in three digits. Only in two districts -- Hathras and Kasganj -- the new positive cases reported in the last one day are in the single digit.
The disturbing trend for the government is that while a week ago there were around a dozen districts which reported zero COVID-19 cases, now all the districts have reported new novel coronavirus positive cases with state capital Lucknow taking the lead with 4,444 cases in one day.
Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad said that 67 people infected with novel coronavirus died in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll in the state to 9,152 on Sunday evening.
"The number of COVID-19 patients is increasing every day. Covid tests of 2.03 lakh people were conducted in the last 24 hours. A total of 3.67 crore people have been screened so far," he said.
Prasad said there were 71,241 active coronavirus positive cases in the state, the highest in the last 12 months, while 6,11,622 COVID-19 patients had recovered in the state so far.
During the past 24 hours, the maximum number 4,444 new novel coronavirus positive cases were found in Lucknow. The state capital now has 20,195 active cases while 31 people died of COVID-19 in Lucknow during the past 24 hours.
Varanasi reported 1,740 new positive cases. There are 6,900 active cases in Varanasi while one COVID-19 death was reported there in the last 24 hours. Prayagraj reported 1,565 new positive cases with nine deaths. It has 8,263 active cases. Around 881 new positive cases were found in Kanpur Nagar, which reported eight COVID-19 deaths and has 3,809 active cases.
In the last 24 hours 390 fresh cases were reported in Gorakhpur, 291 in Jhansi, 255 in Meerut, 222 in Ballia, 221 each in Bareilly and Banda, 219 in Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida), 214 in Chandauli, 210 each in Rae Bareli and Mirzapur, 188 in Moradabad, 162 in Jaunpur, 155 in Ghaziabad, 152 in Muzaffarnagar, 142 in Ghazipur, 140 each in Agra and Saharanpur, 138 in Mathura, 133 each in Lalitpur and Sonbhadra, 126 in Gonda, 105 in Barabanki, 103 in Bahraich and 102 in Sitapur.