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*Uttar Pradesh: Man pushes tricycle, helps disabled friend travel 350km
* Update at 10.37am: Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, his family members placed under 14-day home quarantine after they reach Budhana town in UP for Eid, say police
* Update at 9.30am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 3,029; number of cases climb to 96,169, reports PTI quoting Union health ministry
* The UP government is likely to follow Centre’s guidelines on lockdown, which has been extended till May 31.
* The number of Covid-19 cases in Lucknow crossed the 300-mark on Sunday, with four more corona warriors — all health workers, including a female doctor and two women staff nurses, testing positive for novel coronavirus among the nine new cases that pushed the city tally to 305.
* Amidst a massive influx of migrants into the state, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday issued directives to raise daily pool testing of samples from 6,500 to 10,000 per day to check spread of coronavirus. He also sought increasing covid-19 beds from 75,000 to 1 lakh for infected patients during a high-level meeting with Team 11 at his office-cum-residence in Lucknow.
* Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday ordered officials to ready at least 200 buses in every district of the state to ferry migrants who are reaching the state in large numbers.
* As many as 208 new cases were reported in the state in the past 24 hours taking the total to 4,472 on Sunday. This is the highest number of cases reported in a single day. Health officials believe that the state has entered its 'fourth Covid-19 surge' with migrant labourers testing positive.
*Uttar Pradesh: Man pushes tricycle, helps disabled friend travel 350km
* Update at 10.37am: Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, his family members placed under 14-day home quarantine after they reach Budhana town in UP for Eid, say police
* Update at 9.30am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 3,029; number of cases climb to 96,169, reports PTI quoting Union health ministry
* The UP government is likely to follow Centre’s guidelines on lockdown, which has been extended till May 31.
* The number of Covid-19 cases in Lucknow crossed the 300-mark on Sunday, with four more corona warriors — all health workers, including a female doctor and two women staff nurses, testing positive for novel coronavirus among the nine new cases that pushed the city tally to 305.
* Amidst a massive influx of migrants into the state, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday issued directives to raise daily pool testing of samples from 6,500 to 10,000 per day to check spread of coronavirus. He also sought increasing covid-19 beds from 75,000 to 1 lakh for infected patients during a high-level meeting with Team 11 at his office-cum-residence in Lucknow.
* Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday ordered officials to ready at least 200 buses in every district of the state to ferry migrants who are reaching the state in large numbers.
* As many as 208 new cases were reported in the state in the past 24 hours taking the total to 4,472 on Sunday. This is the highest number of cases reported in a single day. Health officials believe that the state has entered its 'fourth Covid-19 surge' with migrant labourers testing positive.
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