Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Thursday that Uttar Pradesh was on its way to victory after a decisive battle against Covid-19. He claimed that this had been made possible by effective health management and exemplary teamwork, he said in Gorakhpur, according to a state government statement.
He also said that the UP’s Covid leadership had rightly received high praise from the World Health Organization (WHO) and that there should be a research paper on the matter.
“We are one month away from the Covid vaccine, while the state has already contained the pandemic,” he said as keynote guest at the opening ceremony of the ‘Healthy Eastern Uttar Pradesh – An Initiative’ campaign at AIIMS, Gorakhpur.
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He noted that while the Covid death rate in developed countries like the United States was 8% and between 3-5% for some other states in India, it was as low as 1.04% in Uttar Pradesh. But for some setbacks, the figure would have been below 1% in the state, he said.
He reminded the medical fraternity that the AIIMS in Gorakhpur had responsibility for about five crore of the population spread over the Gorakhpur and Basti divisions and in the eastern and northern Bihar and even as far as Nepal.
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