Lucknow: In the midst of concern the newly spread Coronavirus variant, Uttar Pradesh saw Spurt and recorded 27 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday.
A large number of new cases were witnessed after at least three months where daily counts remained under 20, and lately, even less than 10.
Gautam Budh Nagar reported nine Covid cases, took him to the top of the district list with the highest number of active cases.
With only 8 recovery reported on 27 new cases, calculations up for active cases across 100 signs to settle at 116.
“Nine cases in Gautam Budh Nagar are worrying.
Tally includes one health worker, three people are randomly tested, and five people From one family.
The family was tested for one of them colds and therefore all decided to be tested and positive.
They are all without symptoms and all feel better now, “said a health department official.
Mainpuri reported five cases, followed by three in Varanasi and two of each in Lucknow, Mathura and Bareilly.
A government spokesman said that keeping a new variant in mind, the government focused on increasing coverage of vaccination and cluster approaches and door-to-door campaigns had produced a 5% increase in the second dose coverage.
Until Saturday, more than 77% of the population of adults countries had received at least one dose of Covid vaccine, while more than 35% had been covered with both doses.
“So far, the country has given 16.66 doses of crore vaccines with around 11.4 crorses covered with the first dose and more than 5.26 crorses are fully vaccinated with two doses,” spokesman said.