Even as the number of active coronavirus positive cases are on the decline in Uttar Pradesh, it has emerged that males are more prone to COVID-19 than females but the fatality is the highest among the elderly people.
For the 24th day in a row, the number of COVID-19 patients across the state came down on Sunday. On September 17, it had touched the peak with 68,265 active cases but on Sunday, the figure was 40,019, almost 28,000 less than the peak figure.
On Sunday 3,348 fresh coronavirus positive cases were reported in the state while 3,417 COVID-19 patients recovered. The recovery rate now stands at 89.37 percent.
In the last 24 hours, 41 COVID-19 deaths were reported across the state.
Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad said that for the first time the government-run RT-PCR labs in the state tested over 63,000 samples on Saturday. A total of 1,72,726 samples were tested taking the total number of Covid tests in the state to 1,18,98,777.
Prasad said there were 18,167 asymptomatic COVID-19 patients in home isolation while 3,250 patients were admitted to private hospitals and the rest were convalescing in government-run Covid hospitals.
He said there were 68 percent males and 32 percent females among the positive cases reported in the state. He said among the confirmed positive cases, 13.77 percent were in the age group of 0-20 years, 47.29 percent in the age group of 21-40 years, 29.04 percent in the age group of 41-60 years and 9.49 percent above the age of 60 years.
However, the additional chief secretary said that though the percentage of positivity of people above 60 years of age was 9.49, the fatalities in this age group was 45 percent.
He said over 4.13 lakh surveillance teams had covered 1,37,149 areas of the state and visited 2.67 crore houses to check the health of over 13.22 crore people.