(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddh Nagar on Friday recorded 61 new Covid-19 patients, pushing the tally of cases in the district to 5,806. However, the number of active cases stood at 906, as 71 more patients got discharged since Thursday.
So far, 4,857 patients have recovered from Covid-19 in Gautam Buddh Nagar, the second-highest among districts in UP after Lucknow (6,090). The district has so far recorded 43 deaths linked to coronavirus and the mortality rate among positive cases stood at 0.74 percent. The recovery rate of patients improved to 83.65 percent from 83.26 percent on Thursday, 82.72 percent on Wednesday, and 82.95 percent on Tuesday.
Gautam Buddh Nagar (906) stands 11th on the list of districts in the state in terms of active cases. The maximum active cases are in Lucknow (5,284) followed by Kanpur Nagar (4,584), Varanasi (1,993), Allahabad (1,780), Bareilly (1,720), Gorakhpur (1,324), Jaunpur (1,273), Aligarh (1,103), Ballia (1,094) and Ghaziabad (1,038), according to the data. There were 44,563 active cases across Uttar Pradesh, while the death toll reached 1,981 with 61 fatalities since Thursday. So far, 66,834 patients have recovered across the state.
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