LUCKNOW: As many as 34 districts of Uttar Pradesh are free from coronavirus infection, an official statement issued by the state government said. The bulletin indicates that the number of active cases in the districts touched zero on Saturday.
The Covid-free districts are: Aligarh, Amroha, Ayodhya, Amethi, Azamgarh, Baghpat, Ballia, Balrampur, Banda, Basti, Bahraich, Bhadohi, Bijnor, Bulandshahr, Chandauli, Chitrakoot, Etah, Fatehpur, Gonda, Hamirpur, Hardoi, Hathras, Kasganj, Kushinagar, Lalitpur, Mahoba, Moradabad, Pilibhit, Pratapgarh, Rampur, Saharanpur, Sant Kabirnagar, Shamli, Shravasti, Siddharth Nagar and Sonbhadra.
The total number of active cases in UP is now 193 across 41 districts. Five districts—Lucknow, Bareilly, Prayagraj, Gorakhpur and Gautam Budh Nagar—account for 45% of the total active cases. Meanwhile, nine new cases took the state’s tally to 17,09,652.
Of these, 16,86,572 have recovered which means a recovery rate of 98.7%.
