After successfully adopting the T3  mantra of Trace, Test and Treat, Uttar Pradesh on Friday crossed the milestone of conducting over 5.50 crore covid tests, the highest in the country. In another victory against COVID-19, the Active Cases in State dropped below 5000.

Uttar Pradesh also crossed the mark of 2.50 crore in administering vaccine doses.

With its widely deployed and efficient testing strategy, Uttar Pradesh conducted as many as 2,73,426 tests in the last 24-hours out of which nearly 1,25,140 were done through RT PCR. The total number of tests conducted in UP reaches around 5,50,00,515 .

At present, the active cases have remarkably declined to 4,957 in the state. Earlier, there were less than 5,000 active cases on March 24. Daily cases in Maharashtra and Kerala are two to three times more than the total active cases in Uttar Pradesh which clearly shows how the state effectively eliminated the novel coronavirus .

The State on June 18 recorded less than 300 fresh Covid-19 cases for the second consecutive day since the second wave surge of Covid-19 cases in the state.

A total of 294 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours.

Other than Lucknow, all 74 districts have less than 200 active cases.

Around 592 people got discharged recovering from the deadly disease.The ‘UP Model’ of Covid-19 management has been successful as the recovery rate in the state is as high as 98.3 percent which is encouraging. A total of 3350 people are currently in home isolation.

The Test Positivity Rate (TPR) – which shows the level of infections among people stands at 0.1 percent in Uttar Pradesh, the lowest in the country.

Uttar Pradesh is conducting an aggressive vaccination programme in the state, under which so far 2,50,83,802 doses have been administered. In the last 24-hour, 4,60,358 doses were administered in the state as a result of the extensive vaccination campaign