Yogi Adityanath

In an attempt to enhance health infrastructure ahead of the third wave which is said to affect children, CM Yogi Adityanath has directed the health department to complete the setting up of pediatric ICUs (PICU) and mini PICUs in hospitals by June 20 along with other measures.

Yogi Adityanath spoke on varied issues, from Covid to the recently concluded gram panchayat polls in an interview with Economic Times.

Uttar Pradesh state government along with central government will help children orphaned due to pandemic to stand up on their feet.

The video of Yogi Adityanath interacting with a little girl in Kushinagar went viral on social media.

While weeks back the state was seeing around 40,000 news cases daily, in the last few days the daily new cases have been below 4000.

Uttar Pradesh, India's most populated state, has till now registered 16,73,785 positive cases for Chinese coronavirus. Of these, 76,703 are active as of now.

The Uttar Pradesh government has followed the '3T' formula of tracing, testing and treatment aggressively to tackle the rise in cases in both urban and rural areas.

Yogi Adityanath recently launched ‘Mera gaon, Corona mukt gaon’ campaign to declare villages free from coronavirus infection.

Yogi Adityanath govt has announced that the best performing three villages and wards in cmbating Covid-19 will be rewarded

Monitoring committees have visited 79,512 villages as part of a Covid-19 screening campaign launched by the Yogi Government on May 5