Uttar Pradesh recorded 1,908 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in a span of 24 hours, according to the state government on Sunday. Calling it "remarkable", the Uttar Pradesh government said this signals control over the deadly virus. It said that while other states failed to control their positivity rate, Uttar Pradesh brought its test positivity rate to 0.5% with the help of the ‘Yogi Model’. The positivity rate has been maintained below 1 percent for five straight days now," it further added. Uttar Pradesh tested 340,096 people on Saturday out of which at least 140,000 of those were RT-PCR tests.

Source: Hindustan Times May 30, 2021 12:45 UTC