LUCKNOW: Even as the number of new cases crossed the 100-mark on Sunday, UP registered a huge jump in the number of tests — more than 10,000 in the past 24 hours.
While 139 new cases took the overall tally to 2,625, with 10,112 tests in 24 hours, UP’s tests per million reached 407 which is double of what it was doing 10 days ago – 193 per million on April 23.
A major portion of the credit for this goes to pool testing while the remaining goes to addition of three new labs in the past one week – JALMA Agra and Council of Scientific and Industrial research labs in Lucknow.
Health officials also pointed out that the all the labs in the state were going an extra mile in wake of the crisis. “Almost every lab has outdone its capacity… the backlog is reducing while efforts to strengthen testing further are underway,” said a senior officer in the state government.
The state also recorded the death of a Covid-19 patient in Meerut, taking the overall toll to 45. The recovery of 56 patients took the total number of discharged to 754. Covid-19 made a comeback in Barabanki which had not seen any positive case in the past 10 days. The only patient here had recovered.
Sharing details on the death, Meerut CMO Raj Kumar said: “The deceased was a 58-year-old resident of Kidwai Nagar area who died on Sunday morning. He tested positive for Covid-19 posthumously.” Kumar also sai that the district recorded nine new cases taking the overall tally to 120.
Cases in Agra continued to soar – 49 new patients took the district's tally to 596. Neighbouring Firozabad saw 10 new cases which took the district total to 147 while Mathura recorded five new cases.
After a gap of about 3-4 days, Kanpur also recorded a surge of 29 cases, taking the overall score to 257. Health officials in the two districts said that patients were mostly contacts of the previous cases.
Nine cases each were reported in Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar, taking the district tallies to 82 and 168 respectively.
Two cases each were reported in Sambhal, Auraiya, Moradabad while three were found in Varanasi. Jalaun, Aligarh, Muzaffarnaga, Prayagraj, Hathras, Pratapharh and Bulandshahr reported one case each.
While 139 new cases took the overall tally to 2,625, with 10,112 tests in 24 hours, UP’s tests per million reached 407 which is double of what it was doing 10 days ago – 193 per million on April 23.
A major portion of the credit for this goes to pool testing while the remaining goes to addition of three new labs in the past one week – JALMA Agra and Council of Scientific and Industrial research labs in Lucknow.
Health officials also pointed out that the all the labs in the state were going an extra mile in wake of the crisis. “Almost every lab has outdone its capacity… the backlog is reducing while efforts to strengthen testing further are underway,” said a senior officer in the state government.
The state also recorded the death of a Covid-19 patient in Meerut, taking the overall toll to 45. The recovery of 56 patients took the total number of discharged to 754. Covid-19 made a comeback in Barabanki which had not seen any positive case in the past 10 days. The only patient here had recovered.
Sharing details on the death, Meerut CMO Raj Kumar said: “The deceased was a 58-year-old resident of Kidwai Nagar area who died on Sunday morning. He tested positive for Covid-19 posthumously.” Kumar also sai that the district recorded nine new cases taking the overall tally to 120.
Cases in Agra continued to soar – 49 new patients took the district's tally to 596. Neighbouring Firozabad saw 10 new cases which took the district total to 147 while Mathura recorded five new cases.
After a gap of about 3-4 days, Kanpur also recorded a surge of 29 cases, taking the overall score to 257. Health officials in the two districts said that patients were mostly contacts of the previous cases.
Nine cases each were reported in Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar, taking the district tallies to 82 and 168 respectively.
Two cases each were reported in Sambhal, Auraiya, Moradabad while three were found in Varanasi. Jalaun, Aligarh, Muzaffarnaga, Prayagraj, Hathras, Pratapharh and Bulandshahr reported one case each.
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