The Uttar Pradesh Government has now made it mandatory for the passengers travelling to UP from States with a high positivity rate to produce a negative RT-PCR (Covid-19) report before entering the State.
Additional Chief Secretary Information Navneet Sehgel said the UP Government in order to prevent rise in Covid cases has directed that report of negative RTPCR should be made mandatory for people coming to UP from States with more than three per cent positivity rate.
“This report should not be more than four days old,” he said. The new rule will be applicable to anyone travelling to UP via air, road, or rail routes. People entering Uttar Pradesh in their personal vehicles will also have to follow this protocol. He said people coming to UP from such States should start the journey only after getting their Covid test done.
Those who have received both doses of vaccination may be exempted.
The decision was taken by a team of nine top officials of the UP Government in a meeting with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday. The move aims to contain the spread of Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh.
Meanwhile, fresh Covid 19 cases in Uttar Pradesh came down to 56 on Sunday and 69 patients have recovered. Now a total of 7 districts have been declared free from corona in the State.
Sehgal said the positivity rate stood at 0.02 per cent during this period. The recovery rate of corona in the State is 98.6 per cent.
“Not a single patient of Covid left in seven districts of UP which are Aligarh, Chitrakoot, Hathras, Kasganj, Mahoba, Shamli and Shravasti,” he said and added that no district has confirmed new cases in double digits today while not a single new case of infection was found in 47 districts, and in 28 districts, patients were found in single digit.
In the last 24 hours, 2,54,771 Covid samples were examined.
So far, more than 4,03,52,500 Covid vaccines have been administered in Uttar Pradesh. This is the highest number of vaccinations done by a single State.
Yesterday 4,08,975 people were given Covid vaccination.
