lucknow active cases in 72 of the 75 districts of uttar pradesh are now below 500 mark according to official covid bulletin released here on tuesday lucknow jhansi and gautam budh nagar are the only exception the total number of active cases in the state now stands at 12484 health officials said that the number of new cases continued to decline while the recoveries went up the bulletin showed that 1207 new cases and 2754 recoveries were recorded in the past 24 hours despite this state officials urged people to adhere to prevention protocols in individual and social interest as those in the vulnerable category may suffer due to the pandemic virusthey said that as many as five persons died of complications caused by the pandemic virus in the past 24 hours taking the total number of deaths to 23404 health officials also urged people to get their due vaccine dose at the earliest