Uttar Pradesh Government has announced that those COVID patients who are recovering in post-COVID wards after coming negative in tests will be treated free of cost in government hospitals. AIR correspondent reports that the order issued by Principal Secretary (Health) Alok Kumar says that it has come into notice of government that many COVID patients who were admitted in hospitals for treatment have to remain in Post-COVID Wards for proper recovery even after coming negative in the RT-PCR tests.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Now as per the government's directions no charge will be taken from them during their admission period in Post-COVID Wards after coming negative in RT-PCR test. Meanwhile, the recovery rate in state has further jumped to 95.1 per cent and new cases of COVID infections are decreasing sharply. In last 24 hours only, 3,371 new cases were found in state and active cases are now 62,271. Now active cases are around 80 per cent less than the number during peak time of COVID-19 in state last month. Government also conducted record number of more than 3.5 lakh tests in a single day yesterday. </span><br />