2,934 new Covid cases in Lko, 9,695 in state

Despite night curfew being clamped in nine districts of the state from Thursday, the surge in novel coronavirus infections is gathering momentum as on Friday a record 9,695 positive cases were reported during the past 24 hours across Uttar Pradesh.

This is the highest ever number of such cases in a day in the state.

Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad said here on Friday that the active cases in the state had now reached 48,306.

He said Covid tests of 1.97 lakh people were done in the last 24 hours out of which 86,000 samples were tested with RT-PCR. He said so far, 3,63,44,993 samples had been tested in the state

Till date 9,039 people have succumbed to novel coronavirus in the state.

Lucknow has turned into a hotspot as during the last 24 hours, 2,934 new coronavirus positive cases were reported in the state capital while 14 COVID-19 patients died.

After Lucknow, 1,016 positive cases were reported in Prayagraj, 845 in Varanasi, 522 in Kanpur Nagar, 333 in Gorakhpur, 225 in Gautam Buddha Nagar, 190 in Jhansi, 156 in Meerut, 145 in Rae Bareli, 126 in Moradabad, 119 in Banda, 117 in Chandauli, 109 in Ayodhya and 103 in Bareilly.