With 17 UP districts having zero active and fresh Covid-19 cases, 27 new cases were reported across the state on Tuesday. The districts with zero active cases include Aligarh, Amethi, Badaun, Ballia, Bahraich, Chitrakoot, Deoria, Farrukhabad, Firozabad, Hardoi, Hathras, Kasganj, Kaushambi, Mahoba, Sant Kabir Nagar, Shamli and Shravasti.
“What has come as a big relief as none of the 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh have reported fresh Covid cases in double digits lately,” Additional Chief Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal said.
“It indicates that the dangerous virus is receding in the state with as many as 54 districts reporting no Covid case in the last 24 hours while over 21 districts reported new cases in single digits,” he added.
In another significant development, the active caseload in the most populous state, which was at a high of 3,10,783 in April, has been reduced to 420 now, whereas states like Kerala and Maharashtra account for an active caseload of 1,72,250 and 62,452, respectively.
Of the 1,83,270 samples tested in the last 24 hours, the reports of only 27 came out positive in the most populous state while 24 patients recovered from disease, taking the total recovery figures to 16,85,785.
With proactive measures such as the aggressive T3 (trace, test and treat) approach and prevention through vaccination and partial corona curfews to eradicate the pandemic, the UP government has left no stone unturned to minimise the devastating impact of coronavirus, as a result of which the positivity rate has slumped to 0.01 per cent, the lowest in the country, Sehgal pointed out.
With a density of 690 persons per square km, Uttar Pradesh, in the entire country, also appeared as the only state to have tested more than 3 lakh samples a day and more than 6.94 crore samples so far. The testing was particularly ramped up to reach the rural pockets of the state.