Uttar Pradesh has achieved a landmark success by conducting more than 50 thousand RTPCR tests in a day which is highest in country. Yesterday UP conducted more than one lakh 50 thousand tests and total tests till now stand at around 72 lakhs.

Out of 1,50,652 covid tests yesterday, 50,000 tests were done on RTPCR and that too by govt labs. Currently UP is doing maximum tests in india. still it’s positivity is half of the national average. Also the death rate due to covid is also below national average.

Chief Minister of state Yogi Adityanath has said that the 50 thousand RTPCR tests per day by government labs shows government's firm resolve to fight Corona. He also asked senior administrative officers of state to prepare an effective action plan to control the spread of Covid-19 in the state capital Lucknow.

The city is witnessing the highest number of corona patients in the state. Yesterday 7103 active cases of covid patients were found in the state out of which 1181 are only in Lucknow.

Maximum 16 deaths were also reported from Lucknow while 76 persons lost their life due to corona in state yesterday. State currently has 67321 active covid cases.

India has been continuously reporting high number of recoveries. A total of 70,880 recoveries have been registered in the last 24 hours in the country. Maharashtra has alone contributed more than 14,000 and Andhra Pradesh has contributed more than 10,000 to the single day recoveries. With this, the total number of recoveries has touched 35,42,663 taking the Recovery Rate to 77.65%. 60% of the new recovered cases are being reported from five States, viz. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh.96,551 new cases have been reported in the last 24 hours.

Of this, Maharashtra alone has more than 23,000 and Andhra Pradesh has more than 10,000.Nearly 57% of the new cases are reported from only five States. These are the same States that are also contributing 60% of the new recovered cases.The total number of active cases in the country stands at 9,43,480 as on date.

Maharashtra is leading this tally with more than 2,60,000 cases followed by Karnataka with more than 1,00,000 cases.Nearly 74% of the total Active Cases are in nine most affected States. Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh contribute more than 48% of the total active cases. As many as 1,209 deaths have been registered in the past 24 hours. Maharashtra has reported 495 deaths followed by Karnataka with 129 deaths, whereas Uttar Pradesh has logged 94 deaths.