Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has appealed people not to venture out without any proper reason during the restriction period. The state government has imposed 55 hours of long restrictions this weekend also and it will continue every weekend. Talking to the senior police and administrative offices of the state through a review meeting Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asked them to stop the infection rate of coronavirus in state at any cost.

He said that a special team comprising directors and senior Doctors of Premier institutes like SGPGI, KGMU and Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Lucknow has been formed and help of this team should be taken in solving any kind of problem which comes while containing the spread of Corona infection.

The State is under a series of restrictions for a period of 55 hours from last night and a statewide sanitization campaign will be launched today. The restrictions started from 10 PM yesterday night and will continue till 5 AM in the morning on the 20th of July. All offices, business institutions and markets in urban and rural areas across the state will be closed during the restriction period. Although All emergency services will continue as usual.

Special nodal officers appointed in all 75 districts have been asked to supervise the sanitization and prevention of communicable diseases campaign in every village panchayat and ward across the state.

Meanwhile, in Uttar Pradesh, around 1.75 lakh persons have been identified with symptoms of cough fever and breathing problems during the mass level screening campaign conducted recently. Samples of around forty thousand such persons are being tested now. The State Government has also fixed the rates for treatment in private hospitals working as COVID hospital.

Samples of more than 52,000 persons were tested yesterday which is a record number of testing in a single day in the state to date. Additional Chief Secretary Home Avnish Awasthi said that Home Quarantine is not allowed in the state. For those asymptomatic patients who are interested in getting better facilities apart from the medical treatment, there is a new system in place in Ghaziabad and Lucknow districts. Such patients will be provided proper Health treatment from the government in the hotels which are acquired by the administration and they will be charged 2000 per day for double Occupancy.

This service will not be available for children and pregnant ladies. Unified command centers will be established at the district level and also at state level for better coordination in surveillance medical screening and ambulance systems.

The help of drones will be taken for or surveillance in containment zones. Survey activities will be conducted on mission mode and door to door surveys will be done in urban areas. There are currently 16,445 active cases of COVID-19 patients in the state.