In Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked to pay special attention to cities like Lucknow, Kanpur, Amroha and Jhansi where the number of COVID patients is increasing regularly. Meanwhile, the state yesterday tested more than 45 thousand samples for Coronavirus infection. This is the highest number of tests conducted by any state in a single day.

Additional Chief Secretary Medical Education Rajneesh Dubey said that more than 12 lakh samples of the patients have been tested in the state till date. It took four months to complete the test of six lakh people in the state while the other six lakh samples were tested in the last 20 days only which is a record.

In the last week, the State Government has tested more samples than the standard decided by WHO. The positivity rate of patients in the state still lies below four percent of the tested samples.

Currently, there are 14,628 active places of COVID patients and more than 25,000 patients have been discharged after proper recovery. The Special Screening Drive which was launched in 17 divisions of the state ended yesterday health screening of more than 18 crore people was conducted by health teams during this period.

Uttar Pradesh government has expanded the ambit of the emergency police helpline number 112, and linked fire, ambulance, railway police and disaster relief services with it. Now people do not need to remember so many emergency numbers and they can directly call 112 in case of any eventuality.

Additional Director General of police and in charge of Emergency services 112, Asim Arun told that now for any kind of emergency issues related to Government Railway Police, fire control, 108 ambulance and 1090 women powerline people can call on 112 directly.

The police response vehicles PRVs of 112 services had played an important role in providing assistance, medicine and food to the needy during the lockdown and extended it's services to senior citizens also with a special sawera campaign. 

The total number of Coronavirus recovery, crossed the six lakh mark today. The Central Government said, a total of  6,12,815 people infected with Coronavirus have recovered in the country so far and with this, the recovery rate reached 63.25 percent. In the past 24 hours, a record of 20,783 people recovered. Presently, the total number of active cases in the country is 3,31,146.

The Health and Family Welfare Ministry said a total of 32,695 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the country in the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases to 9.68,876. This is the highest number of cases registered in one day since the outbreak of COVID-19 in India. Yesterday, 606 deaths were reported taking the nationwide toll to 24,915.