A record single-day spike of 34,379 COVID-19 cases and 195 fatalities pushed Uttar Pradesh''s infection tally to 9,76,765 and the death toll due to the disease to 10,541, the state government said on Thursday.
As many as 16,514 patients recovered from the disease in the state in a span of 24 hours, taking the total count of recoveries to 7,06,414.
On Wednesday, the state registered 33,214 COVID-19 cases and 187 deaths.
Uttar Pradesh now has 2,59,810 active cases, of which over two lakh are in home isolation, Prasad said. Among the fresh cases, Lucknow reported a maximum of 5,239 cases, followed by 2,013 in Allahabad, 1,813 in Varanasi, 1,684 in Meerut, 1,516 in Kanpur, 530 in Gautam Buddh Nagar besides others.
