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Continuing its northward recovery trend, Uttar Pradesh reported 709 fresh corona cases against 1,706 recoveries as the recovery rate climbed to 98 per cent on Wednesday.
Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Amit Mohan Prasad said that in the last 24 hours, 1,706 Covid patients recovered as against fresh cases dropping to merely 709, making it the lowest daily infection count for the state since mid-March.
“The state recorded a decline by more than 95 percent in the number of active corona cases since its peak on April 30, with active cases dropping from 3.10 lakh to nearly 12,000 now. The Covid condition in the state has been improving day by day. The recovery rate has climbed up to 98 per cent. Consequently, the daily case positivity rate also dipped to 0.24 percent from a high of over 16.84 percent in April,” he said.
Prasad said that UP successfully curbed the transmission level by breaking the Covid chain as Test positivity rate was much lower in comparison to several other states with lesser population such as Tamil Nadu (11 per cent), Maharashtra (over 10 per cent), Kerala (14.15 per cent) and West Bengal (12-15 per cent). Emerging as a leader in terms of testing maximum samples for the novel coronavirus infection, the Yogi-led state has so far tested as many as 5,21,98,161 samples. Nearly 2.90 lakh Covid tests were carried out in the last 24 hours alone.
With the Covid condition in the state showing remarkable improvement, the UP government also lifted the corona curfew in all the districts. The active corona cases in all 75 districts are now much below the 600-mark. So far, more than 16.66 lakh patients have recovered from the deadly infection across the state.
To limit any further spread of the virus across the state, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath issued strict directives to firm up the containment zone strategy in the state. “Containment zones must be fixed and the strategy must be firmed up after the assessment of local conditions by the district magistrates to avoid any inconvenience to the citizens. A policy should be framed in a manner to avoid any further spread of the virus,” directed the CM at a high-level Covid review meeting in Lucknow on Wednesday.