Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to ensure that huge gatherings are not allowed during the entrance and competitive examinations at various centres in the state. <br />''<br />''The Chief Minister was reviewing a meeting on Covid-19 in Lucknow yesterday. He said that more examination centres should be established if the need arises and it must be ensured that all COVID-19 protocols are strictly adhered to at these centres.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports, in view of enormously increasing Corona cases ,Chief Minister  asked officials  to take special care in Lucknow and Kanpur Nagar in view of Covid-19. <br />''<br />''He directed to further increase Covid testing  and maintain communication with the home isolated patients to take regular feedback about their condition.<br />''<br />''Mr Yogi said there should be wide publicity of 'e-Sanjeevani' service so that more and more people are benefited from online medical consultation. <br />''<br />''Reiterating that the protection is the only remedy till a vaccine for covid is found, he  stressed on to continue with the mass awareness campaign about Covid-19 protocol.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile With 4454 fresh cases of corona virus detected in a day  yesterday, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state has reached 1,54,418.<br />''<br />''The death toll has also  touched 2,449 with 58 fresh casualties  reported during  the last 24 hours.<br />''<br />''But the positive side  is that  4,201 people recovered yesterday taking the number of discharged cases to one lakh 432 in the state. <br />