Yogi's Uttar Pradesh becomes first state to test 3.7 lakh people for Covid in one day
India TV NewsDetermined to beat Covid-19, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath himself is on the front foot to assure people are provided with medical facilities and essential medicines to overcome the crisis. As a result, Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in the country to conducted as many as 3.7 Covid tests in a single day. Recoveries in the state have outnumbered fresh cases in the last nearly three weeks and the case positivity rate has dropped to 2.4 per cent, according to the government data shared on Thursday. The Uttar Pradesh government had last week said that the successive lockdowns have helped in flattening the Covid curve and extended the restrictions till May 24. The government is providing free ration to nearly 15 crore people of the state and Rs 1,000 as financial aid to lakhs of daily wage earners whose livelihoods have been hit by the pandemic.