Lucknow, Sept. 17 -- |
Even though the COVID-19 recovery rate has gone up, the rise in infection among the senior citizens has raised a big question on government's efforts to control the spread of coronavirus as experts say that this can increase mortality rate.
The recovery rate of the COVID-19 patients has gone up to 78.29 per cent and the number of patients recovered on Wednesday was more than the fresh cases, said Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad here on Wednesday.
Prasad said that there were 67,002 active cases in the state while the 2,58,573 COVID-19 patients had recovered, including 6,476 people discharged from hospitals on Wednesday.
He said that 1,54,202 samples were tested on Tuesday and with it the total...