Lucknow: Alarmed over rising number of fresh Covid cases the Uttar Pradesh government has once against imposed restrictions in various major cities of state.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to make mask wearing mandatory in Gautambuddh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Hapur, Meerut, Bulandshaher, Baghpat and Lucknow. He advised people to wear mask at public places in these cities. In the last one-week maximum new covid cases have been found in the cities falling under the National Capital Region (NCR) near Delhi and UP’s state capital Lucknow.
While presiding a meeting of Team-9, comprising of senior officials to keep a check on covid in UP, CM Yogi asked them to identify those yet to be vaccinated in these cities. Besides, he has also asked for testing of those found with symptoms of covid in these areas.
CM said that the presence of omicron variant has been confirmed from the genome sequencing of the covid positive patients in NCR. The experts have said that number of cases might rise but there would not be any further need of hospital beds. Also, there is no possibility of more people becoming serious due to covid infection. He however said that people must follow covid protocol to avoid any problem.
CM Yogi informed that number of covid cases are on a rise in the bordering states of UP and it has its effect in the NCR districts. In the last 24 hours 65 fresh covid cases have been found in Gautambuddh Nagar, 20 in Ghaziabad and 10 is Lucknow. On Monday, alone 10 students appearing in the offline examination in the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Law University were tested covid positive. After this, the students boycotted the examination and demanded for online tests.
According to health officials there are 695 active covid cases in entire UP. During last 24 hours, 83864 covid tests were conducted and of these 115 news cases were detected. Till date a total of 10.99 crore covid tests have been conducted in UP. In UP 30.75 crore doses of covid vaccines have been administered so far. A total of 12.72 crore youths above the age of 18 years have been given both the doses of covid vaccines. The CM informed that booster dose of vaccine has been made available at 700 odd private vaccination centres.
