With emphasis on strict screening, proper treatment and aggressive vaccination, Uttar Pradesh has been able to restrict the number of fresh Covid-19 cases below 50 for three consecutive weeks.

Indicating consistent decline, the state of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday recorded as many as 19 fresh cases, testifying success of the multi pronged approach adopted by the state government in limiting the transmission of virus in the densely populated state.

The Fresh cases have declined by more than 38,000 from its peak which was 38,055 on April 24. The state has also been able to restrict the daily Covid case-count below 100 for nearly two months now.

With strengthening the public health system, clear risk communication and active participation, despite being the most populous state, the Yogi-led Uttar Pradesh has been able to effectively manage the pandemic with a steady decline in number of fresh cases and covid deaths as compared to all other states.

In a sharp contrast to UP, states such as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala that are not even half of UP’s population have miserably failed to register any decline in the number of fresh infections and as a result have been reporting 1,000-30,000 Covid cases regularly, which is even more than the Active Caseload in Uttar Pradesh.

The lesser number of fresh cases on Tuesday, however, is not because Uttar Pradesh, like other states, has decreased COVID testing. UP under its stringent T3 testing mechanism-’Trace, Test and Treat’ conducted more than 1.73 lakh Covid tests in the last 24 hours.

Continuing its positive recovery trend, Uttar Pradesh also saw as many as 74 Covid-19 patients discharged, adding up to the recovery of 16,86,256 people so far.

Consequently, the daily case positivity rate in Uttar Pradesh too has dipped to 0.01 percent from a high of over 16.84 percent in April. Case positivity rate is the percentage of samples that test positive out of the total numbers of samples evaluated.

Uttar Pradesh has been showing a much better recovery in terms of low daily positivity rate as compared to several other places with lesser population such as Maharashtra (12%) and Kerala (16.74%).

As a result of swift measures, micro-planning, alertness and an aggressive approach to contain the virus, Uttar Pradesh has recorded a decline by over 99 percent in the number of active covid cases since its peak on April 30, as the active cases have dropped from 3,10,783 to nearly 250.

With the Covid condition in the state improving day by day, the recovery rate has climbed up to 98.6 percent.

Over 350 Oxygen Plants get Functional in UP

Becoming self-reliant in terms of producing the life-saving fluid, as many as 357 of the 554 oxygen plants have already been established and are functional while work on the rest is going on in Uttar Pradesh.

Twenty-five oxygen plants were already functional in the state before the government took the step of constructing more at a rapid pace to ensure the availability of sufficient amounts of medical oxygen in view of any possible future requirement.