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Uttar Pradesh government has conducted covid test of more than 2500 persons who recently returned from the United Kingdom. 10 of these have been found Corona positive. Although the strain of covid virus is not clear in these persons and the government has sent the samples for genome sequencing.
AIR Correspondent reports, Additional Chief Secretary, Health Amit Mohan Prasad said that state government is conducting more than 1lakh 50 thousand covid tests per day. So far Uttar Pradesh has conducted the highest number of covid tests in the state.
He said that top 75 police and administrative officials of the government recently visited different districts of state and reviewed the measures being taken to stop the spread of coronavirus at ground level. They have sent a detailed report to the Chief Minister.
Meanwhile 1043 new covid cases have been found in the state in last 24 hours and now there are 14155 active COVID patients in state. State capital Lucknow has maximum number of covid patients.