Curbs eased in UP as Covid cases fall

The Covid havoc in Uttar Pradesh has almost been tamed with nearly two third districts having no fresh cases. Seeing the decline in number of cases and improved situation, the UP government has further eased curbs in the state. The night curfew in UP will now be implemented from 11 pm to 6 am in the morning. Earlier, the state government had scrapped the weekend lockdown in August.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath while presiding over a meeting of senior officials on Tuesday said that now fresh Covid cases have been found in 59 districts of the state. However, in 28 districts, there are no cases of Covid left. Seeing this improvement, the night curfew timing has been reduced, he said. Till date 8.08 crore people in the state have been vaccinated, which is highest among all the states in the country. The CM informed that in the last 24 hours alone, 33.42 lakh people were vaccinated.

In the meet with the chief minister, officials informed that 28 districts such as Aligarh, Amroha, Bagpat, Balia, Balrampur, Banda, Basti, Behraich, Bhadohi, Bijone,

Chitrakoot, Deoria, Fatehpur, Gazipur, Gonda, Hamirpur, Hapur, Haroi, Hathrus, Kaushambi, Lalitpur, Mohaba, Muzxaffarnagar, Pilibhit, Rampur, Shamli, Sitapur and Sonbhadra have nil cases of Covid. At present, there are only 227 active Covid cases in the entire state.

Meanwhile, the chief minister said that in the wake of rise in the case of dengue and viral fever, special attention should be paid in the affected districts. He said that distribution of medicine kits should be started immediately and special wards should be created to handle the situation.