<span style="color: #222222;">In Uttar Pradesh, around 1.75 lakh persons have been identified with symptoms of cough fever and breathing problem during the mass level screening campaign conducted recently. Samples of around forty thousand such persons are being tested now. The State Government has also fixed the rates for treatment in private hospitals working as COVID hospital.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Samples of more than 52,000 persons were tested yesterday which is a record number of testing in a single day in state till date. AIR correspondent reports that&nbsp;Additional Chief Secretary Home Avnish Awasthi said that Home Quarantine is not allowed in state. For those asymptomatic patients who are interested in getting better&nbsp; facilities apart from the medical treatment there is a new system in place in Ghaziabad and Lucknow districts. Such patients will be provided&nbsp; proper Health treatment from government in the hotels which are acquired by the administration and they will be charged 2000 per day for double Occupancy.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">This service will not be available for children and pregnant ladies. Unified command centres will be established at district level and also at state level for better coordination in surveillance medical screening and ambulance system.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Help of drones will be taken for or surveillance in containment zones. Survey activities will be conducted on on mission mode and door to door survey will be done in urban areas. There are currently 16,445 active cases of COVID-19 patients in state.</span><br />'' &nbsp;
News On AIR | July 17, 2020 8:39 PM
UP: Samples of around 40,000 persons being tested for COVID-19