The Uttar Pradesh health minister on Saturday hinted at a gradual relaxation in the lockdown rules as the state witnesses a dip in coronavirus infection. The Uttar Pradesh government had re-imposed a lockdown on April 30, this yearThe state's health minister Jai Pratap Singh said that the Uttar Pradesh cabinet, along with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, monitored the coronavirus situation in both rural and urban areas recently. Noting the gap, he said the Uttar Pradesh government will ensure that the rural population gets vaccinated. Meanwhile, talking about the cases of black fungus, the Uttar Pradesh minister said that the state had enough stock of Amphotericin-B, the drug used to tackle the fungal infection. Yesterday, the active coronavirus cases came down below 2,000 both in Gautam Buddh Nagar and Ghaziabad, two of the highly affected districts of western Uttar Pradesh.

Source: Mint May 29, 2021 09:16 UTC