<span style="color: #222222;">Uttar Pradesh government has advised people to follow Covid protocol strictly as Covid-19 cases have started rising again. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered more testing and stressed the need for speedy contact tracing.<br />'' <br />'' AIR correspondent reports that according to health department during the last 24 hours 442 new cases of covid-19 were detected and during the same period only 123 patients suffering from covid infection got recovered. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The most 115 new cases were found in state capital Lucknow followed by 34 in Varanasi, 21 in Moradabad and 17 in Gautam Budh Nagar district. The number of active cases in state has also increased to 2 thousand 774. As of now 5 lakh 95 thousand 518 covid patients have recovered and 8 thousand 758 covid patients have lost their lives.<br />'' <br />'' The work of sample testing for covid-19 is continuously going in a state and as of now more than 3 crore 34 lakh samples have been tested. </span><br />''  <br />