Owing to the successful handling of Covid-19 in the state, the UP government has directed all the medical colleges and institutions to restore all the medical facilities to pre-Covid levels and a circular has also been issued in this regard. However, to handle any kind of emergency, the Covid wards will be available in hospitals.
“Since lockdown was announced, the pandemic situation has been handled effectively in the state through regular sanitisation, protocols, contract tracing and testing,” the official spokesman said here on Friday.
The official said that with the coronavirus cases on decline, the hospitals will go back to normal functioning. He said the surveillance teams have reached about 85 per cent population of the state, which is the highest in the country. Along with this, the number of patients is also decreasing in the state.
After conducting the most number of Covid tests, UP state is also on top in terms of vaccination, the second phase of vaccination started on Friday.
Meanwhile, the vaccination of front line workers like policemen, military jawans, home guards, sanitisation workers, employees of civil defence and workers of revenue department was carried out in the state.
About eight lakh health workers and frontline workers have been vaccinated from January 16 to February 11. More than 2.92 crore samples have been tested in the state and the recovery rate of UP is about 98 per cent, which is higher than that in many states.
Being the most populous state in the country, the number of active Covid cases has now reduced to just 3,000 while more than 5.89 lakh patients have recovered so far. With a population of about 24 crore, the surveillance teams have also covered about 18 crore people in the state.