With active caseload declining to zero, now Pilibhit district has also become coronavirus-free. The district appears to have completely eradicated the dreaded novel coronavirus after it saw the recovery of the last known infected person. With Pilibhit, a total of four districts (Aligarh, Kasganj and Shravasti) added to Uttar Pradesh’s success in crushing the resurgent coronavirus. The state’s Recovery Rate has climbed up to over 98.6 per cent.
In another significant accomplishment, no district reported coronavirus positive cases in double digits, i.e. no district in Uttar Pradesh has reported more than nine fresh cases of coronavirus infection during the past 24 hours.
Following the Trace, Test and Treat regime of the Yogi Adityanath government, the active caseload in the state dropped to 1,608 in the last 24 hours, said an official communiqué released on Saturday.
Following an aggressive testing policy, Uttar Pradesh has breached the record of six crore Covid tests. So far, the state has conducted as many as 6,03,77,016 tests out of which 2,76.013 were conducted in the last 24 hours. As a result, the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) has slumped to 0.03 per cent in Uttar Pradesh, lower than the lowest post-first wave of the pandemic, the release stated.
In the same period, another 183 patients also recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of people who recovered from COVID-19 goes up to 16,82,924.
Taking vaccination forward at a fast pace, the government has now given the facility of registration to the people through the Common Service Centres in villages. The state government has also directed the officials to make more and more people aware of the free vaccination and to maintain communication with the Government of India for the availability of the vaccines.
So far the state has administered as many as 3,68,18,042 doses of Covid vaccines. In the last 24 hours, UP administered 7,23,405 vaccine doses.