LUCKNOW: The number of active cases in the state again rose to 250 on Saturday as 26 new cases of Covid-19 infection were detected in the past 24 hours. The tally of active cases mounted by 11 after adjusting the 15 patients who recovered in the same duration.
The new cases took the state's tally to 17,09,427 of which 16,86,323 have recovered. An official statement said the new cases were reported from just 12 districts and all of them saw single digit figures. The remaining 63 districts saw zero cases.
It may be noted that 24 districts — Aligarh, Amethi, Amroha, Ayodhya, Baghpat, Ballia, Banda, Basti, Bijnor, Chitrakoot, Deoria, Fatehpur, Ghazipur, Gonda, Hamirpur, Hardoi, Hathras, Lalitpur, Mahoba, Muzaffarnagar, Pilibhit, Rampur, Shamli and Sitapur—have become Covidfree with zero active cases.
Talking about improvement in vaccination, officials said: “The total number of doses given in the state has reached 7.75 crore. In terms of people, 6.47 crore people have taken at least one dose while 1.27 crore are fully vaccinated.”
