ghaziabad at least 2230 more people tested positive for covid in the past 24 hours in gautam budh nagar catapulting the number of active cases to 9267 up from 7099 recorded a day backwith the new cases the district also recorded its highest singleday spike since may 5 last year when 1822 cases were logged health officials said the sample positivity rate has continued to hover around 34 over the past 24 hours they said currently 88 patients are undergoing treatment for the infection in the districta health bulletin released by the state health department indicated that 12 districts in uttar pradesh have more than 1000 active cases and the list is topped by gb nagar followed by lucknow 8168 ghaziabad which recorded 1581 new cases on the day currently has 7518 active infections along with meerut 5597 active cases the four districts account for more than 50 of the total active case burden in the state officials saidon tuesday ghaziabad had recorded a 1679 new infection which was the highestever singleday spike that the district had recorded since the pandemic began in march 2020 in the past 24 hours the sample positivity rate has been recorded at 18 district health officials said adding that at least 23 patients are admitted at different hospitals of them 17 are being treated at government hospitalsofficials said the decision regarding the admission of patients to the hospital is taken by the integrated covid command centre at present four private hospitals in the district have been converted into covid care facilities and have a provision of 250 beds this can be increased up to 400 beds officials said