The total number of covid in UP increased to 5,24,223 with 2,326 new infections, data showed on Saturday.
Uttar Pradesh has decided to do mandatory Covid testing on people coming from Delhi as the national capital struggles to contain a month-long coronavirus surge. Authorities in Gautam Budh Nagar, the Uttar Pradesh district adjacent to Delhi, have been conducting random checks on arriving people for some time. So did Haryana in the adjoining districts of Gurugram and Faridabad in Delhi.
“We will be testing people coming from Delhi by plane, bus or train, in the wake of the increase in COVID-19 cases in the national capital,” UP Chief Secretary RK Tiwari said today by the news agency. ANI news. “We are discussing the number of people authorized to attend weddings or other events,” he added.
Figures in Delhi, on an upward movement since late October, had passed the 8,000 mark earlier this month. Even yesterday, it topped the list of daily increase with 5,876 cases, despite the fact that the number of tests was well below the more than 60,000 cases carried out in a working day. Only 45,568 tests were performed during the previous 24 hours, data from the Ministry of Health showed.
Uttar Pradesh has also witnessed a surge in coronavirus cases, prompting the Center to dispatch a three-member team of experts to the state.
With 24 deaths in Uttar Pradesh in the last 24 hours, the total increased to 7,524. The number of cases increased to 5,24,223 with 2,326 new infections. The number of active cases in the state is 23,471, the November positivity rate is 1.6 percent.
Over the past 24 hours, the number of coronavirus cases in the country increased by 45,209, bringing the total number of infections to 90.95 lakh, government data showed.
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