Acknowledging that novel coronavirus cases were under control across the state, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath cautioned that the infection was not over yet and carelessness could prove costly and instructed officials to effectively continue the system of prevention and treatment of COVID-19 patients.
He was reviewing the COVID-19 situation at a high level meeting convened at Lok Bhawan in Lucknow on Tuesday.
In the meeting, the chief minister was informed that 28 new cases of coronavirus infection were reported across the state during the last 24 hours while 34 COVID-19 patients had recovered during this period.
At present, there are 352 active cases in the state.
The heartening fact remains that there is not a single COVID-19 patient in Aligarh, Auraiya, Budaun, Deoria, Farrukhabad, Fatehpur, Gonda, Hamirpur, Hardoi, Kanpur Dehat, Mahoba, Mirzapur, Sant Kabir Nagar and Unnao districts.
In the last 24 hours, 1.56 lakh samples were tested for coronavirus infection across the state.
Yogi directed officials to continue Covid vaccination with full steam, stressing that vaccination was an important safeguard in controlling the infection. He urged people who have taken the first dose of vaccine to take both the doses. In view of the possibility of a third wave of COVID-19, he also asked officials to ensure that all necessary arrangements were made and PICUs and NICUs set up expeditiously.
Officials apprised him that more than 6.42 crore vaccine doses have been administered in the state till date. The chief minister was also informed that 6,600 paediatric ICUs and isolation beds had been arranged in medical colleges and 5,850 beds had been prepared in hospitals of the Health department. He was also apprised that 56,000 isolation beds and 18,000 ICU beds were available at present and out of 555 oxygen plants approved so far, 336 had become functional.
Referring to reports of several people being taken ill in Farah village of Mathura and in some urban areas of Firozabad, Yogi directed Health department officials to immediately rush teams to both districts to examine the patients and make all necessary arrangements for the diagnosis of disease.