A few days after the coronavirus vaccine was promised for free for Bihar, the Uttar Pradesh government too announced that the vaccine would be provided free of cost in the state.
The vaccines are likely to be available in the market by March 2021.
UP Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh, at a function on Tuesday night, said that the state government would provide free vaccines to the people of the state though the vaccine was expected to be available in the market by March 2021.
“Our efforts to improve Covid-19 handling will continue. During the coronavirus crisis, we worked as a team and the results of it are for everyone to see. The government has also managed to prevent dengue and encephalitis,” Singh said, adding that the Health department was striving for arrangements for better treatment of cancer patients in UP.
The COVID-19 death toll in Uttar Pradesh rose to 6,940 on Tuesday with 38 more fatalities, while 2,018 fresh cases were reported on Wednesday, a health bulletin issued here said.
At present, there are 26,276 active cases in the state, while 4,40,847 people have recovered from the infection and have been discharged, Additional Chief Secretary (Medical and Health) Amit Mohan Prasad told reporters.
The number of active cases in UP has come down by around 60 per cent since September 17 during which the state witnessed a peak of over 68,000 cases, Prasad said.
