With 366 Covid-19 cases, city sees highest single-day spike

Kanpur: A record 366 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in a period of 24 hours in the city on Friday. This was the biggest single- day spike, which took the tally beyond 5,000. The last day of July turned out to be harshest in terms of the biggest spike in a single day. So far 5,166 people have contracted coronavirus since the first case was recorded in March and the numbers are increasing on a daily basis.

However, 2,138 persons who defeated corona have been discharged from hospital and sent home. The trend continued on Friday as 51 more people were discharged and allowed to go home. Now, the city has a whopping 2,828 active Covid-19 cases and these persons are under the medical supervision of medical experts.

Five more patients died and this took the toll to 200. July has remained a harsh month for the Covid-19 patients as not a single day passed by when deaths did not occur. However, the health department informed that all the persons who died were suffering from some or the other ailment. The most common of them was diabetes or pneumonia.

Areas from where cases were recorded on Friday included Juhi, Vikas Nagar, Shakti Nagar, Tilak Nagar, Anandpuri, Bengali Mohal, Govind Nagar, Satyam Vihar, Jajmau, Swaroop Nagar, Kidwai Nagar, Maswanpur, Meerpur Cantt, Nawabganj, P. Road, Rawatpur, Shyam Nagar, Shiv Katra, Tilak Nagar, Vishnupuri, Saket Nagar, Pashupati Nagar, Babupurwa, Gandhi Nagar, Harsh Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Gujjaini, Keshavpuram, Kakadeo, Naveen Nagar, Gwaltoli, Lajpat Nagar, Lal Bangla, Santravidas Nagar, Nirala Nagar, Yashoda Nagar, Begumpurwa, Civil Lines, Damodar Nagar, Hanumant Vihar, Police Lines, Shastri Nagar, Nawabganj, Benajhabar, Laxmi Ratan Colony, Acharya Nagar, Dabauli, Yogendra Vihar, Ratanpur, Tiwaripur, Harjinder Nagar, Keshav Nagar, Safipur, Azad Nagar, Arya Nagar, Janakpuri, Cooperganj, Anwarganj, Phoolbagh, Medical College Campus, Gulmohar Vihar, Barra-8, Barra Vishwa Bank, Avas Vikas-3, Basant Vihar, Geeta Nagar, Kalyanpur, Ghatampur, Chakeri, Panki, Jarauli, Kailash Vihar, Cantt, Naubasta, Prem Nagar, Rail Bazar, Shanti Nagar, Sharda Nagar.

Health department teams also collected 2,494 samples.