Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that due to timely action taken by the government, there have been fewer cases of corona virus infection cases in the state. Yogi said that about 8000 cases have been reported in Uttar Pradesh so far and of these, 5000 people have gone to their homes after being completely cured, while the number of active cases is around 3000.

He further said that due to timely promptness and awareness of corona epidemic, the result is that the number of cases of this infection is less in Uttar Pradesh. On the opposition's criticisms of the need to make more efforts to prevent the infection, Yogi said that they do not realize the ground reality and are sitting in their air condition drawing rooms and discussing the epidemic.

Meanwhile, a spokesman of the state government said that the Chief Minister has said that the test capacity of the virus infection in the state has increased to 15,000 samples per day and by the end of this month it will increase to 20000 samples per day.