UP: According to the health bulletin, with 336 fresh cases being reported in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, 17,03,733 people died of the infection in the state.
So far 22,030 people have died due to infection in the state.
Of the 69 fresh deaths, 11 were from Lucknow, seven from Kanpur Nagar, six from Shahjahanpur, five from Fatehpur, three from Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Jalaun and two each from Varanasi, Gonda, Pilibhit, Basti, Hathras, Kannauj, Banda, Kanpur Dehat and Chitrakoot.
The bulletin said that one death each occurred in Kushinagar, Allahabad, Ghaziabad, Deoria, Mathura, Amethi, Ghazipur, Hardoi, Moradabad, Unnao, Mirzapur, Sambhal and Auraiya.
Twenty-one cases have been reported from Allahabad, 18 from Ghaziabad, 17 from Meerut, 16 from Lucknow, 14 each from Gautam Buddh Nagar and Gorakhpur, and 13 each from Muzaffarnagar and Varanasi, the bulletin said.
In the last 24 hours, 685 patients were discharged from hospitals, taking the number of recoveries to 16,75,684.
The count of active cases stands at 6,019 and the recovery rate has now come to 98.4 per cent. In the past 24 hours, more than 2.90 lakh samples were tested in the state, the bulletin said.
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