Lucknow, May 12:Uttar Pradesh recorded 18,125 COVID-19 cases and 329 deaths from the virus during the last 24 hours, a health bulletin said today.
The active cases have now reached 2,06,615 while the virus has taken the lives of a total of 16,369 people in the state.
The fresh cases came from a total of 2,45,986 samples tested during the past day, State Additional Chief Secretary Health Amit Mohan Prasad said.
A total of 13,40,251 people have recovered so far, while the recovery rate 85.7 per cent.
In Lucknow, 916 new cases of COVID-19, while 1,232 cases have been reported in Meerut, 992 in Gautam Buddha Nagar, 743 in Ghaziabad and 755 in Muzaffarnagar.
During this period, Kanpur district suffered the the highest number of 26 casualties followed by 23 in Lucknow, 17 in Jhansi, 14 in Moradabad, 11 each patients died in Gautam Buddha Nagar, Meerut and Hardoi districts.(UNI)