PM Modi lauds Yogi-led government in UP for adept handling of the state’s Covid-19 conditions

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath came certain praise from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday for the measures taken by the Uttar Pradesh government to tackle COVID-19 and handling the migrants crisis, consistent with a press release .

During his meeting with the chief ministers over video conference, the prime minister acknowledged the efforts of Adityanath and his team for taking “proactive steps” in reducing the coronavirus fatalities, it said.

The statement said Modi singled out Uttar Pradesh for doing the foremost tests — 1.50 lakh per day and having tested 90 lakh people thus far , the very best within the country among all the states.

Modi said the high tests by the state did manage to stay the coronavirus deaths to the “minimum”, consistent with the statement.

The prime minister complimented Adityanath for “adept handling” of the migrants crisis, mentioning that in such an enormous state like Uttar Pradesh with the most important population within the country, the amount of migrants was also on the upper side.

In his address, Adityanath apprised him of the coronavirus situation within the state.

He said out of about 1.50 lakh tests per day, around 50,000 tests are by the RT-PCR method with a positivity rate of 4 per cent and overall recovery rate of 82 per cent, consistent with the statement.