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itself is an achievement considering reports of vaccine shortages in various states . As a part of its measures to protect children from the third covid wave , parents having children less than 12 years of age are being given special discounts as an incentive to get inoculated . This will serve dual purpose ; not only will it encourage people to get vaccinated but also provide an additional protection to children who are not yet eligible to take the Covid-19 vaccine .
To ensure compliance , two nodal officers in every large district and an officer in the smaller ones have been assigned to monitor covid protocol including quarantine and isolation ; gram panchayats and mohallamandals have also been roped in for the same . With rising cases of black fungus , a 12-member team has been allocated for providing training and treatment guidelines for affected patients . With myriad steps taken , the number of active Covid-19 cases have reduced by 2,72,956 from 3,10,000 on April 30 to 37,044 on May 31 — in a matter of a month . Out of the number of active cases , 20,762 are in home isolation . This reduction in active cases has provided a breather to the healthcare workers also . What makes this fall in cases even more laudable is that this decline has come despite a softer lockdown imposed in the state vis-à-vis a harder lockdown in other states ; industrial activity and essential services continued to function apart from the vaccinations and
Yogi ' s tryst at ground zero
The UP Chief Minister is working hard . Is it only COVID concern or politics , too ?
On April 30 , Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath tested COVID negative and the very next day he was back in action . He went to review the construction of makeshift DRDO hospital at Awadh Shilp Gram in Lucknow . On May 5 he inaugurated the hospital , named after Atal Bihari Vajpayi . Since then , Yogi is on ground zero - visiting districts to take stock of the pandemic situation . In over three weeks since Yogi tested negative , he has assessed the situation in 55 districts of 14 divisions , roughly 70 percent of the state , by either visiting them
medical emergencies which were exempted from the curfew . The
Triple-T strategy ensured that for all reduction in cases , the livelihoods remained secured ; by keeping the industries up and running , the dailywage workers werenot forced to lose out on their wages .
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or through virtual meetings . Uttar Pradesh has 75 districts .
He even went to Noida , considered a jinxed city for Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh , and Saifai , the first non-Samajwadi Party Chief Minister to visit the stronghold of the Mulayam Singh Yadav family . There are many arguments floating around about Yogi ' s forays into villages . One section says that in April end there was a surge in fresh cases of corona and UP recorded maximum 38,000 cases per day . At that time Yogi tested positive for Covid-19 . Though he was holding review meetings with the officials virtually , the impact of the meeting was missing . Questions were raised
Triple-T strategy ensured that for all reduction in cases , the livelihoods remained secured ; by keeping the industries up and running , the daily-wage workers werenot forced to lose out on their wages .
As per the current data , two districts have become covid-free while in 16 others , the case numbers have declined to a single-digit . In 53 districts , the case-count has come down to less than 100 , with only four districts having more than a hundred cases . Real-time monitoring and ground visits by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and aggressive campaigning against the highly contagious virus have helped Uttar Pradesh in tiding over this
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