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So far, the virus has killed 21,735 people in the state. On Saturday, 11 deaths were reported from Kanpur Nagar, nine from Bareilly, eight from Gorakhpur, six from Mathura, five from Jhansi, four from Farrukhabad, three each from Agra, Lakhimpur Kheri, Shahjahanpur, Etawah and Mirzapur. Two deaths each were reported from Meerut, Shamli, Pilibhit, Gonda, Moradabad, Chandauli, one each from Varanasi, Rae Bareli, Barabanki, Jaunpur, Unnao, Aligarh, Etah, Sant Kabirnagar and Banda, the bulletin issued here said. The maximum 34 cases surfaced in Lucknow, 22 in Meerut and 20 in Ghaziabad, it said. In the past 24 hours, 1,757 patients were discharged from hospitals, taking the number of cured people to 16,70,631.
More than 1.17 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs, while over 38 lakh doses will be received by them within the next three days, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday. Over 25.60 crore vaccine doses have been provided to states and UTs so far through the Government of India (free of cost channel) and direct state procurement categories. Of this, the total consumption, including wastage is 24,44,06,096 doses, the ministry said. A total of 1,17,56,911 COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs to be administered. Furthermore, 38,21,170 vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will be received by them within the next three days, the ministry said.
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