<span style="color: #222222;">In Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed to prepare a special strategy for COVID control in Lucknow, Kanpur city and Meerut districts.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">These districts have seen the surge in the number of new COVID cases recently.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Chief Minister said that the state has been able to control the spread of the pandemic to a great extent.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">This is a good sign that the number of active cases has come down during the last one week. It clearly shows that the strategy with regards to Corona control has been effective.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports, the strategy of UP Government for curbing the spread of infection is providing positive results now.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Despite having the highest number of COVID tests per day in the country which is more than 1. 5 lakh per day positivity rate is coming down and the recovery rate has reached 84.75 per cent.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">From 18th of this month, the number of new COVID cases is less than the patients recovered per day.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">On Monday also 3,838 new active cases were found in the state and 5,382 patients were discharged after full recovery. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Chief Minister has appointed special officers in those 16 districts which have more than 100 new cases per day.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">One Principal Secretary, one Special Secretary, one health specialist and one medical education expert is camping in these districts.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">State currently has 53,953 active COVID patients and with 60 new deaths the toll of deaths due to the deadly virus has reached 5,652.</span><br />