lucknow the city recorded high number of covid19 cases for the third consecutive day on sunday with 165 people including a minister a ministerrank politician 17 members of a family 11 employees of a fertiliser cooperative and nine more staffers of 102 ambulance service testing positivethe samples of upendra tiwari minister of state with independent charge of sports and youth welfare were collected by a team of smp civil hospital from his residence after he developed flulike symptomsraghuraj singh chairman of labour and employment board with minister of state rank was tested at rmlims after he developed symptoms both politicians have been admitted to sgpgmis said cmo dr narendra agarwalso far 10 politicians including three ministers and their 16 contacts have tested positive in the city overall the citys case count soared to 2384 of which 1057 have recovered so far the cases on sunday were from across lucknowan entire 17member family living on posh jopling road is down with the virus the head of the family had tested positive at spm hospital on july 9 following which other family members were tested we are still tracing the source of his infection said the cmosimilarly 11 workers of a fertiliser cooperative posted in the head office in vibhuti khand tested positive when they got themselves tested after a colleague was diagnosed with covid19 on july 10with nine more 102 ambulance service employees testing positive total number of patients from the call centre reached 113 other cases included officer on special duty and security guard of vidhan sabha speaker besides an employee at human milk bank in kgmu a nurse in balrampur hospital and a pac jawan of 32nd battalionfive more localities in the city were recommended to be converted into containment zones taking the number of such areas to new high of 379