Despite being the most populous state, UP has given best results for COVID mgmt: Yogi Adityanath

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday compared UP  to Delhi in fighting the Coronavirus pandemic. He said that despite being the most populous state, UP has given best results for COVID mgmt.

“If you compare this to Delhi – UP has a population of 24 crores and there have been 8,000 deaths. Delhi, with a population of 1.75 crores, recorded 10,000 deaths,” said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

“Despite being the most populous state, UP has given best results for COVID mgmt. Two months back the state had 68,000 active cases & now it’s less than 18,000. UP is the state to conduct the most number of tests, we have the lowest positivity rate & lowest mortality rate,” he added.

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Earlier on December 12, UP CM claimed that while a vaccine against Covid-19 was just about a month away, the infectious virus had already been contained in the state.

“We are about a month away from the Covid-19 vaccine and the state has already contained the pandemic. Developed countries like the US registered a Covid-19 death rate of about 8 per cent, but Uttar Pradesh only saw 1.04 per cent of Covid-19 deaths,” Adityanath said.

He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the ‘Healthy Eastern Uttar Pradesh’ drive at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Gorakhpur, where he was the chief guest.