LUCKNOW: With 17 more Covid-19 fatalities, the cumulative death toll in Uttar Pradesh rose to 22,381 while the total cases in the state climbed to 17,05,220 with 226 new infections, a health bulletin issued here said.
“In the past 24 hours, 226 fresh cases were reported in the state while as many as 320 Covid-19 patients recovered from the infection and have been discharged, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 16,79,416,” it said.
The count of active Covid-19 cases in the state stands at 3,423, the bulletin said.
The recovery rate of the state is 98.5%.
In the past 24 hours, more than 2.6 lakh samples in the state have been tested.
The overall samples tested is over 5.65 crore in the state, it said.