STATEWIDE NIGHT CURFEW TIMINGS RELAXED BY 2 HRS

CM announces that it will remain in force from 10pm to 6am daily, instead of 9pm to 7am

LUCKNOW : Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday announced a relaxation in the statewide night curfew by two hours. The night curfew will remain in force from 10pm to 6am daily, instead of 9pm to 7am. The decision was taken considering the continuous improvement in the Covid-19 situation in the state, the chief minister said at a high-level Covid-19 review meeting here. He said the positivity rate in the past 24 hours was a mere 0.04% and the recovery rate stood at 98.6%. “No fresh case of Covid was found in 29 districts. Fortyfive districts reported fresh cases in single digits. Only one district recorded new cases in double digits.

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday announced a relaxation in the statewide night curfew by two hours. The night curfew will remain in force from 10pm to 6am daily, instead of 9pm to 7am.

The decision was taken considering the continuous improvement in the Covid-19 situation in the state, the chief minister said at a highlevel Covid-19 review meeting here.

He said the positivity rate in the past 24 hours was a mere 0.04% and the recovery rate stood at 98.6%.

“No fresh case of Covid was found in 29 districts. Forty-five districts reported fresh cases in single digits. Only one district recorded new cases in double digits.

Despite all these improvements, aggressive testing must continue,” he said to the officers concerned at the meeting.

The chief minister also said 125 fresh Covid-19 cases were reported in the state in the past 24 hours while 134 patients recovered during the same period. At present, the state has 1594 active Covid-19 cases, he added.

Adityanath said 3.71 crore (37.1 million) doses of the Covid vaccine were administered in Uttar Pradesh so far, including 3.13 crore (31.3 million) first doses.

CM for gene sequencing of Sultanpur family’s samples

Yogi Adityanath said a total of 20 people were found Covid-19 positive in Sultanpur recently and all were related to one family. Preliminary tracing indicated that they had recently returned from Maharashtra, he said.

“Collect samples of all these Covid positive (patients) and get the genome sequencing done on them to find the virus strain,” he said to the officers concerned.

He also asked for intensifying tracing and testing in the block where these cases surfaced and called for special alertness in the entire Sultanpur district.