Yogi wants a lakh corona tests daily by Monday

CM Yogi Adityanath on Saturday asked officials to take the total number of RT-PCR and rapid antigen tests to one lakh per day by July 27 (Monday) across the state.

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday asked officials to take the total number of RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) and rapid antigen tests to one lakh per day by July 27 (Monday) across the state.

He also asked the chief secretary and additional chief secretary, health, for a spot review of health services in Kanpur Nagar ana Jhansi divisions on Saturday and in Prayagraj and Mirzapur divisions on Sunday. Uttar Pradesh on Saturday reported 39 more deaths due to COVID-19 and 2,971 fresh cases, the highest single-day spike in the state. The death toll due to the disease has mounted to 1,387, while the state’s caseload has reached 63,742. Till July 23, 17.05 lakh samples were tested in the state since the start of the Covid pandemic, according to additional chief secretary, health and family welfare, Amit Mohan Prasad.

Reviewing the Unlock-2 situation at a high level meeting at his official residence here, Yogi Adityanath said 10 lakh testing kits should be procured for every 10-day period.

During the spot review, the chief secretary and the additional chief secretary, health, should focus on contact tracing, door-todoor survey, rapid antigen tests

and ambulance services, Yogi Adityanath said.

“The (spot) review should be held at a health centre or a medical college,” he said.

The officials should also focus on the number of beds in Level-1, L-2 and L-3 Covid hospitals, availability of oxygen in L-1 hospitals, oxygen and ventilators in L-2 hospitals and specialist doctors for co-morbidity patients in L-3 hospitals. A report of the review meetings should be made available to him, the CM said, adding an action plan based on points given for the review meetings should be

prepared. The divisional commissioners should implement the action plan. The nodal officers should camp in the districts allotted to them for five days, he said.

Work should be allocated separately for chief medical officers and deputy chief medical officers and monitored on a day- to-day basis, the chief minister said.

“Patients should not be kept in holding areas and their medical treatment should start immediately,” he added. He asked officials to send a proposal to the Centre to buy new ambulances and advance life support ambulances.