3,260 new cases in UP, 39 deaths in 24 hours

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh on Sunday reported its highest singleday spike of 3,260 Covid-19 cases, including the maximum 449 cases in Lucknow, according to official data.

With this, the state’s Covid-19 infection tally has gone up to 66,988. Thirty-nine more fatalities pushed the death toll in the state to 1,426, according to official data.

In the last 24 hours, eight deaths were reported from Kanpur, six from Ballia, three each from Ayodhya, Bareilly and Gorakhpur and two each from Jhansi, Sultanpur and Varanasi, a state health department bulletin said.

During the same period, one death each was reported from Baghpat, Basti, Bulandshahr, Chandauli, Deoria, Jalaun, Jaunpur, Lucknow, Meerut and Prayagraj, the bulletin added.

Lucknow reported the maximum 449 new cases of Covid-19 infection, Kanpur 202, Varanasi 145, Ballia 128, Moradabad 103, Gorakhpur 107 and Bareilly 101, according to the state health department data.

The total active cases in the state now stand at 23,921. A total of 41,641 people have been discharged after recovering from the disease, the state health department bulletin added.

The first Covid-19 infection case in Uttar Pradesh was reported from Agra on March 2. Since then, the tally has crossed the 66,000 mark in 146 days.

As many as 42,703 cases have been reported in July alone. This is 63.4% of the state’s total Covid count.

The state’s Covid tally was 24,285 on July 1.

The grim milestone of 1,000 cases was crossed on April 20, about 49 days after the first case was reported.

The total count was above 10,000 cases on June 6. It crossed 20,000 cases on June 25 and 30,000 on July 8. It stood at 41,471 on July 15, 53,598 on July 21, 60,771 on July 24 and 66,988 on July 26.