lucknow uttar pradesh has recorded 20463 fresh covid19 cases that took the total tally to 1545212 while 306 fatalities pushed the death toll to 16043 officials informed on tuesdayhowever the number of active cases in the state have come down by over 94000 in the past 10 days additional chief secretary health amit mohan prasad saidon april 30 there were about 310 lakh active cases while currently the number stands at 216057of the 306 fatalities lucknow reported the maximum deaths at 23 kanpur 16 meerut 15 jhansi and gautam buddh nagar 12 each agra and azamgarh 11 each basti 10 and varanasi 8 as per a health bulletin issued heremeerut reported the highest number of fresh covid19 cases at 1368 followed by 1229 in gautam buddh nagar and 1154 in lucknow it saidas many as 29358 covid19 patients recovered from the infection in the past 24 hours prasad saidwith this the total number of patients recovered in the state has risen to 1313112 he addedso far over 434 crore samples have been tested in the state including more than 233 lakh samples that were tested on monday