Uttar Pradesh on Friday crossed the milestone of conducting over 5.50 crore Covid tests, the highest in the country even as active cases in the state dropped below 5,000.
Uttar Pradesh also crossed the 2.50 crore-mark in vaccination. Uttar Pradesh conducted as many as 2,73,426 tests in the last 24 hours, of which nearly 1,25,140 were done through RT-PCR. The total number of tests conducted in UP reached around 5,50,00,515 .
At present, the active cases have declined to 4,957 in the state. Earlier, there were less than 5,000 active cases on March 24. Daily cases in Maharashtra and Kerala are two to three times more than the total active cases in Uttar Pradesh.
On June 18, UP recorded less than 300 fresh Covid cases for the second consecutive day since the second surge. A total of 294 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours. Other than Lucknow, all 74 districts have less than 200 active cases. Around 592 patients defeated COVID-19 even as the recovery rate in the state is 98.3 per cent. A total of 3,350 patients are currently in home isolation.
The test positivity rate (TPR) stands at 0.1 per cent in UP, the lowest in the country.
UP is conducting an aggressive vaccination programme and 2,50,83,802 doses have been administered so far. In the last 24 hours, 4,60,358 doses were administered in the state.