The  Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath government has lifted the Sunday lockdown in the state. The decision was finalised during a meeting of CM's 'Team-9' on Friday, August 20.

It was on August 11,  that the Uttar Pradesh government introduced partial relaxations in the two-day weekly shutting of shops and business establishments, keeping in view the improving Covid-19 situation in the state. August 14 onward, the movement of people was allowed for Saturdays from 6 am-10 pm.

According to the health officials, Uttar Pradesh has been a decline in cases from the past few days. The covid tally climbed to 17,08,562 with 65 new cases, while two new fatalities took the death toll to 22,765 on Tuesday. One death each has been reported from Maharajganj and Chandauli districts, it said. A dozen fresh cases were reported from Lucknow, seven from Varanasi, five from Allahabad, four each from Kanpur Nagar and Gautam Budhnagar, among others. 

Of the cases confirmed in Lucknow, four are members of the same family in Malihabad, a government spokesman said, adding that no other infected person was found in the contact tracing of all the people who came in contact with them.

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