Uttar Pradesh has become number one in conducting covid tests in country. In state Cumulative covid testing figures reached 36 lakh samples yesterday. State is conducting around one lakh covid tests daily.<br />''<br />''With at least 9 districts in the state recording more than 100 new cases of Covid infection in the past 24 hours, the number of active cases in the state  crossed 50,000 today.<br />''<br />''This comes after 4,600 new positive cases found in state, yesterday.  The state now has 50426 active cases and the list is topped by Lucknow, which has 7,188 active cases. <br />''<br />''Kanpur is on second place with more than 4 thousand active cases. Maximum 652 new cases has been found in Lucknow yesterday. The Cover infection is spreading rapidly in eastern region of state with districts like Kushinagar, Deoriya, Gorakhpur, Varanasi and Prayag raj recording more than 100 cases in last 24 hours.<br />''<br />''death toll in state has reached 2,335 today after 59 more patients succumbed to the disease.<br />''More than 92 thousand patients have been discharged following their recovery.<br />