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A COVID-19 patient on a stetcher waits to be allocated a bed at LLR Hospital in Kanpur.
A record single-day spike of 34,379 COVID-19 cases and 195 fatalities pushed Uttar Pradesh s infection tally to 9,76,765 and the death toll due to the disease to 10,541, the state government said on Thursday.
As many as 16,514 patients recovered from the disease in the state in a span of 24 hours, taking the total count of recoveries to 7,06,414, Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Amit Mohan Prasad said in Lucknow.
On Wednesday, the state registered 33,214 cases of the viral disease and 187 deaths. Uttar Pradesh now has 2,59,810 active cases of the infection, of which over two lakh are in-home isolation, Prasad said.