Uttar Pradesh logs lowest daily Covid case in 3 months, Mahoba district becomes Covid-19 free

New Delhi: With Active Caseload declining to zero, Mahoba district led Uttar Pradesh’s way to Covid recovery emerging as the first district to be coronavirus-free.

Mahoba appears to have completely eradicated coronavirus — at least for now — after the district on Monday saw recovery of the last known infected person.

The declaration was greeted with immense joy as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced to reward the district which eliminated the disease with emphasis on strict screening, treatment and vaccination.

“Mahoba’s success must serve as an inspiration for all other districts. It is attributed to the combined efforts of all residents of the district including health workers, frontline workers and the local administration. The district will be rewarded if the current situation is maintained for one more week,” announced the Chief Minister in a high-level Covid review meeting held on Monday.

Mahoba has been able to bring down the fresh Covid-19 cases from 150 daily to not even a single fresh case of Covid-19 infection for almost a week now.

“This achievement is a result of dedicated efforts of the surveillance committees, local participation, timely provision of free medicine kits, large-scale contact tracing and planned containment strategy as per the directives issued by the Chief Minister,” explained DM Mahoba, Satyendra Kumar.

Importantly, the administration prioritized active surveillance while simultaneously providing free medicine kits at the doorstep of infected people through more than 3000 members of over 363 surveillance committees that are active in the district.

“Following the T3 mantra of Trace, Test and Treat, Mahoba intensified contact tracing and tested as many as 15 to 20 people on confirmation of a single infected person”, informed the DM.

The district conducted house-to-house surveillance through surveillance committees to detect all influenza like illness (ILI), traced contact consistently, and provided medicine kits to ASHA workers and Gram Pradhans for timely distribution wherever required.

Fresh cases in UP drop below 215

For the first time in three months, Uttar Pradesh has reported less than 215 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in a single day. Prior to this, less than 215 fresh cases of infection were recorded in a single day in the state before March 15 this year.

Signalling control over a deadly second wave of coronavirus infection, a total of 213 new cases were recorded across the most populous state in the last 24 hours, making it the lowest daily infection count for Uttar Pradesh.

The Fresh cases have declined by more than 37,000 from its peak which was 38,055 capped on April 24. In the same period, another 478 patients recovered from the infection, pushing the Recovery Rate to a remarkable 98.5 percent.

The state is left with just 4,163 active cases out of which nearly 2,500 are under home isolation while the percentage of active cases as against the total confirmed cases is just 0 per cent. Similarly, the test positivity rate is 0.09 per cent.

Leading in terms of conducting maximum COVID tests, Uttar Pradesh has tested as many as 5,54,86,198 samples for the coronavirus infection.

On the contrary, states like Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu despite being not even half of the population of Uttar Pradesh have a heavy load of Active Covid Cases that stands at 1,35,708, 1,07,300 and 78,780, respectively.

No new Covid cases in 18 Uttar Pradesh districts

There has been no new Covid cases reported from, at least, 18 districts of Uttar Pradesh in the past 24 hours. Except for Lucknow, all districts of the state have less than 200 active cases. As many as 66 districts reported 10 or lesser number of fresh cases.

Additional Chief Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal said: “At a time when several states are recording thousands of cases, UP has been able to bring down cases. However, the decline does not mean that people should drop guard against the pandemic as the virus is still active.”