In Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed to prepare a special strategy for COVID control in Lucknow, Kanpur city and Meerut districts.
These districts have seen the surge in the number of new COVID cases recently.
The Chief Minister said that the state has been able to control the spread of the pandemic to a great extent.
This is a good sign that the number of active cases has come down during the last one week. It clearly shows that the strategy with regards to Corona control has been effective.
The strategy of UP Government for curbing the spread of infection is providing positive results now.
Despite having the highest number of COVID tests per day in the country which is more than 1. 5 lakh per day positivity rate is coming down and the recovery rate has reached 84.75 per cent.
From 18th of this month, the number of new COVID cases is less than the patients recovered per day.
On Monday also 3,838 new active cases were found in the state and 5,382 patients were discharged after full recovery.
The Chief Minister has appointed special officers in those 16 districts which have more than 100 new cases per day.
One Principal Secretary, one Special Secretary, one health specialist and one medical education expert is camping in these districts.
State currently has 53,953 active COVID patients and with 60 new deaths the toll of deaths due to the deadly virus has reached 5,652.
