lucknow at least 17 more people 12 on sunday and five on saturday tested covid19 positive in the city in past 24 hoursnew cases included five persons with international or interstate travel history four were contacts of those who tested positive earlier two persons tested positives during routine testing before being admitted to hospitals for treatment of other diseases and two persons got themselves tested because of fever and sore throatamong those with travel history two had returned from dubai and were in home isolation besides two had travelled to jharkhand and one to mumbaichief medical officer dr manoj agrawal said most persons diagnosed with the infection are asymptomatic and are under monitoring samples of all the patients have been sent for genome sequencing he also appealed to people to follow covid protocols we see many roaming around without masks these people should understand that the threat hasnt gone yet he saidmeanwhile at least 6972 people were jabbed against covid19 in the special vaccination drive in lucknow on sunday the drive was conducted at 119 centres including 15 private ones while 4857 people took the second dose 2115 took the first