Active Covid-19 cases fall below 10 in Kanpur district

KANPUR: Due to higher recoveries than new Covid-19 cases, active cases on Saturday, after a long time, fell below 10. On Saturday evening, there were only nine active cases in the district.
The second wave of Covid had wreaked havoc in the district as active cases had shot up. Several hundred people had got infected and had to be treated at designated Covid hospitals.
In the first fortnight of August, only 20 new Covid cases have been reported. Also, active cases which stood at 36 on August 1 reduced to just nine. On April 1, active cases were only 538 which had increased to a whopping 18,738 following the second Covid wave.
These figures provide relief that the second wave of coronavirus is completely under control and it is expected that in a few days, the city may become free of Covid.
On Saturday, there was no new Covid case, while two persons recovered. Three times in this month, no Covid case was reported.
The health department claimed that it had been conducting tests of a large number of samples each day to ensure that the Covid could be kept under check.
On Saturday, over 6,000 samples were collected for test. On Friday, over 5,800 samples were collected while 6,709 samples were collected on Thursday.
So far, 82,894 persons have tested positive in the district in last one and a half years. Of this total, 1,904 persons succumbed to Covid. On April 1, the death toll was 850 and remaining deaths took place during the second wave of Covid between April and July.