As many as 24 out of 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh do not have a single case of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), news agency reported on Saturday citing the chief medical officer (CMO).
UP’s Covid-19 tally rose to 17,09,401 on Friday after 18 cases were reported in the state, according to the health department. The department also said that no death due to the disease was registered on the day.
“Zero active cases in Aligarh, Amethi, Amroha, Ayodhya, Baghpat, Ballia, Banda, Basti, Bijnor, Chitrakoot, Deoria, Fatehpur, Ghazipur, Gonda, Hamirpur, Hardoi, Hathras, Lalitpur, Mohoba, Muzaffarnagar, Pilibhit, Rampur, Shamli and Sitapur,” quoted the CMO as saying.
According to the health department’s bulletin, four cases of Covid-19 were reported from Gautam Buddh Nagar, three from Rae Bareli, two each from Lucknow and Kannauj, and one each from Varanasi, Agra, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Sant Kabir Nagar, Jhansi and Sultanpur. Twenty-one patients have recovered from the disease in the state, taking the number of recoveries to 16,86,308 so far. The bulletin said the death toll due to the disease stood at 22,854 and that there were 239 active cases of Covid-19 in the state. More than 75.8 million vaccine doses have so far been administered in the state, it added.
News Source : The Times of India
