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In the video, Saraswat himself admitted that he is giving his own sample, as the number of samples collected are less than the target set by the chief medical officer's office.

Speaking to News18 on figures of the data, Samajwadi Party MLC Sunil Singh Sajan said that the data included most jobs given on contractual basis, asking how the government could consider that as an achievement.

Another doctor part of the team said Singh, also a former Rajasthan Governor, has multiple comorbidities but is clinically stable.

The Centre in the Unlock 4.0 guidelines had issued SOPs (standard operating procedures) for a partial reopening of schools for students of classes 9 to 12 on a voluntary basis to seek guidance from teachers.

Sources say after months of low-pitched work towards strengthening the organisation, the time ahead will see Akhilesh Yadav himself embarking on his 'Kranti Rath Yatra' and moving across the length and breadth of the state.

The government had in July announced that shops and offices would remain closed on Saturdays and Sundays to stop the spread of the coronavirus infection.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has taken note of the accident in Kakori and has ordered medical care to those injured.

The SP chief also alleged that the BJP government in the state had no time to take stock of the flood situation in the state.

Ajay Kumar Lallu said that apart from improving the quality of conditions of Covid facilities in the state, the UP government needs to ramp up testing.

Khatri appeared on Tuesday through video-conferencing as he is in Sonipat jail. He had requested the special court to record his statement through video link.

The former chief minister's reaction came on a day the government decided to impose stricter curbs across the state from coming Saturday amid a spike in infection cases.

Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh police decided to raise the reward on the history-sheeter Vikas Dubey, who has been on the run since Thursday last week, to Rs 5 lakh from the previous Rs 2.5 lakh.

According to the police, the deceased Gokul Gupta was a native of Unnao and worked in a gutkha factory in Nadarganj industrial area. He lived with his family in the same locality.

Chairing a meeting of government officials here, Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary RK Tiwari issued directions saying more tests should be conducted, so that the infected persons could be identified and isolated.

The chief minister told officials to send four teams each in 250-metre radius of containment zone of single-case and 16 teams each in 500-metre radius of containment zone related to cluster case.

BHD Memorial School in the district has offered a job of assistant teacher in the primary section to Anamika Shukla, after the incident went viral.