Uttar Pradesh on Thursday recorded its highest ever daily spike in Covid-19 cases with 34,379 infections.
Health authorities said 195 new fatalities pushed Uttar Pradesh's death toll due to the disease to 10,541.
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.
Uttar Pradesh now has 2,59,810 active cases of the infection, of which over two lakh are in-home isolation.
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