LUCKNOW: The city continued to record the highest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the state on Sunday.
While 199 more persons were infected by novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, three patients succumbed to the disease.
The new infections accounted for 21% of the total number of cases (959) in the state on Sunday, which means every fifth case in UP was from Lucknow.
Similarly, every fifth Covid-19 death in UP occurred in Lucknow. The city’s toll accounted for 23% of the total casualties (13) in the state.
The biggest contributors in Lucknow’s Sunday tally were Gomtinagar and Indiranagar with 23 and 21 cases respectively. The city’s case count reached 77,659.