COVID-19: Noida's active case count surpasses 10K

With 1,626 new infections, the number of active COVID-19 cases in Gautam Buddh Nagar, adjoining Delhi, crossed the 10,000-mark on Thursday, official data showed.

Gautam Buddh Nagar's active case tally now stands at 10,717, the highest for any district in Uttar Pradesh, the data issued by the state health department for a 24-hour period showed.

Meanwhile, neighbouring Ghaziabad district recorded 1,678 new cases, which pushed its active case count to 9,179, according to the official figures.

During the 24-hour period, 207 COVID-19 patients recovered in Gautam Buddh Nagar and 163 in Ghaziabad, the data showed.

So far Gautam Buddh Nagar has recorded 468 deaths and Ghaziabad 461 deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic which started in 2020.

Uttar Pradesh on Thursday logged 14,765 new cases of COVID-19 which pushed its active tally of infections to 71,022, the data showed.

Six more deaths were recorded in the state on Thursday, with the total number of fatalities due to the pandemic surging to 22,946, it showed.