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Kanpur: The single-day Covid fatality number in Uttar Pradesh reached a record 352 — second highest in the country after Maharashtra — on Tuesday with Kanpur Nagar district alone reporting 66 deaths in the past 24 hours.
Ghaziabad also reported 24 deaths, while state Capital Lucknow 22, according to the Health Department’s bulletin.
Uttar Pradesh has till date reported close to 14,000 deaths.
However, the daily cases of Covid infection saw another day of decline with the state reporting 25,858 new cases in the last 24 hours.
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Kanpur: The single-day Covid fatality number in Uttar Pradesh reached a record 352 — second highest in the country after Maharashtra — on Tuesday with Kanpur Nagar district alone reporting 66 deaths in the past 24 hours.
Ghaziabad also reported 24 deaths, while state Capital Lucknow 22, according to the Health Department’s bulletin.
Uttar Pradesh has till date reported close to 14,000 deaths.
However, the daily cases of Covid infection saw another day of decline with the state reporting 25,858 new cases in the last 24 hours.
The maximum new cases were reported from Lucknow (2,407), followed by Gautam Buddha Nagar (1,761), Varanasi (1,174), Kanpur Nagar (1,150), Ghaziabad (1,057), and Moradabad (1,007).
With the daily recovery — 38,683 — offsetting the new cases, the active caseload dropped to over 2.72 lakh.
In total, over 10.81 lakh people have recovered in the state so far, taking the recovery rate to 79.06 per cent.
Meanwhile, the state government constituted a new advisory committee to prepare a Covid control strategy.