LUCKNOW: While 21 new cases of Covid-19 surfaced in the past 24 hours, more than 7.8 lakh people took the vaccine here on Tuesday.
Health officials said the government is doing everything in its power to keep the pandemic under control, but it also is important for people to do their bit by adhering to the prevention protocol and getting themselves tested.
The 21 new cases were reported from just 11 districts. With this, the total number of Covid-19 cases has gone up to 1,70,9893 so far, including 16,86,844 recoveries and 22,896 deaths. This speaks for the recovery rate of 98.7% and 1.3% death rate.
The state is now left with 153 active cases across 39 districts. Of the total, nearly 65% of the active cases are in just seven districts — Lucknow (30), Gautam Budh Nagar (17), Bareilly (14), Prayagraj (14), Meerut (9), Gorakhpur (8) and Ghaziabad (7).
Also, 17 districts in the state are left with just one active case while 36 are free of Covid-19. On the vaccination front, the total number of doses administered in the state has reached 11.16 crore. In terms of people, 8.90 crore have taken at least one dose, while 2.26 crore are fully vaccinated. This speaks for an achievement of over 58% in the first category and nearly 15% in the other.
