![]() | This article needs to be updated.(April 2021) |
COVID-19 Pandemic spread to Uttar Pradesh in March 2020. While the World Health Organization praised the UP government for its contact tracing efforts,[1] there were several other issues in its management of the pandemic, including under reportage of cases by the government,[2] vaccine shortages[3] and dismal conditions of COVID-19 hospitals.[4]
COVID-19 pandemic in Uttar Pradesh | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Uttar Pradesh, India |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Index case | Ghaziabad |
Arrival date | 4 March 2020 (4 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 1 day) |
Confirmed cases | 5,51,179 (4 December 2020) |
Active cases | 22,665 |
Recovered | 5,20,637 |
Deaths | 7,877 |
Fatality rate | 1.4 % |
Territories | All districts |
Government website | |
MoHFW | Home Coronavirus in India: Latest Map and Case Count |