LKO’S CASE TALLY CROSSES 2L MARK

LUCKNOW: The total number of Covid-19 cases in Lucknow crossed the two-lakh mark with 4,126 fresh infection cases reported on Thursday and the death toll went up to 1,762 with 37 more fatalities, according to official data.

LUCKNOW: The total number of Covid-19 cases in Lucknow crossed the two-lakh mark with 4,126 fresh infection cases reported on Thursday and the death toll went up to 1,762 with 37 more fatalities, according to official data.

The state capital has reported 2,00,832 cases in 424 days since the first case was reported in March 2020, an average of about 473 cases per day.

The overall case positivity rate in Lucknow is about 7%. The state capital has tested over 28 lakh Covid-19 samples since the pandemic began.

“With 1,52,771 recovered patients, the recovery rate in Lucknow is 76.06%,” said Dr Abhishek Shukla, secretary general, Association of International Doctors.

The state capital has 46,299 active cases under treatment and a majority of the patients are in home isolation. Owing to poor oxygen levels, the request for hospitalisation is piling up at the Covid command centre here.

Protest on private hospital campus

LUCKNOW: The attendants of patients staged a protest on the campus of a private hospital for Covid-19 care as five patients died within a few hours late on Wednesday night.

While acknowledging that there were five deaths, the hospital denied any oxygen shortage. The police had to be called to the hospital premises, who controlled the situation and convinced the attendants to end the protest.