UP reports steepest one-day hike with 378 fresh cases

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh reported the steepest one-day hike with 378 fresh cases on Sunday—also taking only three days to add another 1000 coronavirus cases. On Sunday, the state’s coronavirus tally stood at 8075 cases. Also, four fresh deaths took the total deaths till now to 217.

LUCKNOW : The state reported the steepest single-day spike of 378 fresh coronavirus cases as the statewide tally soared to 8,075, according to official data. Four more deaths took the total count of fatalities across the state to 217. It took Uttar Pradesh only three days to reach the unwelcome milestone of 8,000 cases from 7,000 cases. Migrant workers account for about a fourth of the state’s Covid-19 tally.

“There are 2,165, migrant workers who have tested positive till now out of the total 69,410 samples tested from among 11,18,804 inter-state migrants who were under surveillance,” said Dr Vikasendu Agrawal, state surveillance officer in the health department.

Till now, 4,843 patients have been discharged, including 192 on Sunday. The number of active cases in Uttar Pradesh is now 3,015. Noida reported 49 cases, the maximum for the day, taking district’s tally to 457. Ghaziabad reported 33 cases, according to the data released by the state health department.

“The rate of patients getting discharged needs to be focused so that active cases remain low in the state,” said Dr Abhishek Shukla, secretary general, Association of International Doctors.

According to health department

data, 75 districts have reported cases till now, including Agra (882), Lucknow (386), Ghaziabad (328), Noida (457), Kanpur (369), Prayagraj (92), Moradabad (227) and. Varanasi (189).

Uttar Pradesh reported its first Covid-19 case in Agra on March 2 and then crossed the 1,000-mark in 49 days on April 20, when the tally stood at 1,184. The state went past the 2,000-mark eight days later on April 28 when the tally was 2,053. The 3,000- mark (3,214) came up on May 8 and the 4,000 on May 15 (4,057).

The 5,000 mark was crossed in five days on May 20 and the 6,000 figure was reached in the next three days on May 23. The state reached the 7,000 tally in another five days on May 28 and the 8,000 mark in three days on May 31.