UP fares better than UK, Brazil, Spain, Italy and France in controlling Corona

Lucknow Apr 28 (UNI) As the new strain of Covid-19 continues to take its heavy toll on human lives across the country, the Uttar Pradesh Government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is working overtime to ensure prompt testing and treatment of Covid patients in the state in order to minimize the damage.
It is because of the UP Government’s initiatives undertaken in the past one year that the state’s figures in terms of Covid testing, positive cases or deaths, are much better and far less scary than many other states in India and even the developed Western world with the same population level.
In terms of testing, Uttar Pradesh tops among states with 2.25 lakh samples tested daily and 40 million tested so far, against 17 million in Delhi, 25 million in Karnataka and 26 million in Maharashtra.
Similarly, in terms of Covid deaths and positive cases also, the condition of UP is far less scary than many other states despite the fact that UP is one of the most densely populated states in India, the study points out.
According to officials here on Wednesday, in terms of deaths for example, UP reports 47.51 deaths per million which is almost 10 times less than in Delhi with 459.61 deaths and more than 10 times less than in Maharashtra with 513.96 deaths. It is also less than Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh with 206.08,173.80 and 83.82 deaths per million respectively.
Besides, the number of deaths in UP due to Covid is much smaller than in many developed countries including the UK, Italy, Germany, Brazil and Spain where the deaths per million are 1863, 1970, 972, 1828 and 1659 per one million population respectively.
Similarly, in positive cases also, UP lags behind many other states including even Kerala. There are altogether 10.86 lakh positive cases in UP against 42.95 lakh in Maharashtra, 14.05 lakh in Kerala and 13.39 lakh in Karnataka.
In comparison to developed countries also with the same volume of population, the UP’s figures are much better. The positive cases reported in Brazil, France, Italy, Spain and England are 143.40 lakh, 54.98, 39.62, 34.68 and 44.04 lakh respectively.
The total number of positive cases as of now in the state of UP is 33551 with the positivity rate recorded at 17.96 percent on April 26. It is worth mentioning  here that the state received a large number of workers last month on the occasion of Holi. The state has constituted committees at local levels to monitor arrivals and report suspected Covid cases for testing and treatment.
A total of 1,19,47,728 (1.19bn) people have received the Covid vaccine in UP to date, including 15,54,068 healthcare workers, 12,95,446 frontline workers and 90,98,214 people aged above 45 years.
The state is providing tele-consultation facility to those in home quarantine through e-Sanjeevani portal. The state Government also bears the cost of treatment of Covid patients admitted in private medical colleges.