The number of positive patients of coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh rose to 523 on Monday after 40 new cases were detected.
The Head of the isolation ward, King George Medical University (KGMU), Sudhir Kumar said on Sunday night that 740 samples were tested in which 40 were found positive. According to him, of these new cases, 30 were found in Agra followed by four each in Lucknow and Ferozabad and two in Bulandshahar. He added that all the 30 new patients of Agra were admitted at SN Medical college while the two new positive cases in Bulandshahr were the wife and son of an Auryavedic doctor, who died due to the virus recently. Both the mother and son were being treated in Delhi.
With the fresh cases, now the total cases in Agra have gone up to 134, 36 in Lucknow, 27 in Ghaziabad, 64 in Gautam Budhh Nagar, four in Lakhimpur Kheri, nine in Kanpur, two in Pilibhit, two in Moradabad, nine in Varanasi, 17 in Shamli, four in Jaunpur, seven in Baghpat, 51 in Meerut, six in Bareilly, 13 in Bulandshahar, nine in Basti, six in Hapur, five in Ghazipur, four in Azamgarh,18 in Ferozabad, two in Hardoi, six in Pratapgarh, 28 in Saharanpur, one in Shahjahanpur, two in Banda, six in Maharajganj, four in Hatteras, two in Mirzapur, two in Rae Bareli, three in Auriyya, one in Barabanki, two in Kaushambi, one in Bijnore, 10 in Sitapur, one in Prayagraj, three in Mathura, two in Badsun, six in Rampur, five in Muzaffarnagar, seven in Amroha and one in Bhadoi.