Kanpur: As many as 139 persons tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the city on Thursday. While the city reported no fatality on Thursday, the surge in the cases continued after 131 cases surfaced on the previous day.
The total number of Covid cases in the city has now reached 29,433. With the fresh cases on Thursday, the number of active cases crossed 1000-mark. For the first time in November, the number of active cases has surged to 1,004. While on November 17 (Tuesday), number of active cases was 896, it had surged to 924 on Wednesday.
These figures raise concern as the number of active cases had dipped to just 697 on November 1.
Health department on Thursday further increased testing. On Tuesday, 4578 samples were collected for tests. On Wednesday, 4916 samples were collected and on Thursday, 5151 samples were taken. The increase in the COVID cases could probably be due to increase in testing.
On Thursday, 40 people completed their home isolation and 19 others were discharged from the hospitals after complete recovery. So far 7,838 people have been discharged from hospital and 19,830 have completed home isolation.
New cases were reported from areas - Naveen Nagar, Panki, Vikas Nagar, Colonelganj, Gopal Nagar, Hemant Vihar, Juhi, Saket Nagar, Kalyanpur, Railway Colony, Harjinder Nagar, Narwal, Kakadeo, Nawabganj, Hans Nagar, Cantt, Mandhana, Vishnupuri, Generalganj, Lajpat Nagar, Ranjeet Nagar, Shastri Nagar, Kidwai Nagar, Swaroop Nagar, medical college campus to name a few.