Uttar Pradesh has said visitors from states like Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and people with a positivity rate of quite 3 per cent will need to show a negative RT-PCR report no older than four days, consistent with HT’s sister publication Live Hindustan on Monday. aside from this, only those that have received two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine are going to be allowed to enter UP, the report added.
Live Hindustan said chief minister Yogi Adityanath took the choice during the meeting of Team-9 officials on Sunday. Adityanath said that Covid-19 cases are surging in several states of the country. A negative RT-PCR report should be made mandatory for people coming to Uttar Pradesh from those states where the speed of corona positive is quite three per cent, which isn’t quite four days old from the beginning of the journey.
These rules should even be implemented for people coming by private vehicles aside from road, air and rail routes, Adityanath said. Intensive contact tracing and testing of individuals coming to Uttar Pradesh from these states should even be done. Their antigen test and thermal scanning must be done on arrival within the state. Guidelines should be issued during this regard.
On Sunday, 56 fresh Covid-19 cases were reported in Uttar Pradesh and 7 more people succumbed, taking the infection tally to 17,07,847 and therefore the price to 22,721.
Of the 56 fresh Covid-19 cases on Sunday, six each were reported from Varanasi and Gautam Buddh Nagar, five from Prayagraj and 4 from Lucknow, the statement issued by the UP government said on Sunday. Two of the new deaths were recorded in Kanpur, one each in Bulandshahr, Amethi, Ambedkar Nagar, Mirzapur and Auraiyya, it added. Active Covid-19 cases within the state stand at 1260, the statement said.