Summary:
Lucknow: With 15,353 new Covid-19 cases, Uttar Pradesh on Sunday reported the highest single-day spike since the outbreak of the pandemic last year.
With this, the number of active cases on Sunday stood at 71,241 – the highest so far.
In the previous peak, recorded on September 17 last year, there were 68,235 active cases.
The speed by which the infection has spread in the second wave can be gauged from the data that by the end of March, Uttar Pradesh had 9,848 active cases, and now over 71,000 cases — a jump of over 600% in less than two weeks.
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Lucknow: With 15,353 new Covid-19 cases, Uttar Pradesh on Sunday reported the highest single-day spike since the outbreak of the pandemic last year.
With this, the number of active cases on Sunday stood at 71,241 – the highest so far.
In the previous peak, recorded on September 17 last year, there were 68,235 active cases.
The speed by which the infection has spread in the second wave can be gauged from the data that by the end of March, Uttar Pradesh had 9,848 active cases, and now over 71,000 cases — a jump of over 600% in less than two weeks.
As per the UP Health Department’s bulletin, 67 Covid patients died in the last 24 hours, with 31 in Lucknow, which is the worst hit by the pandemic.
The total death count has now reached 9,152, of which at least 332 were reported in the last 10 days.
Sensing the urgency, the state government on Sunday ordered fresh restrictions to break the chain of infection.