The Uttar Pradesh government has claimed that a sanitisation programme has been launched in villages to tackle the spread of Covid in rural areas.

As Uttar Pradesh grapples with the second wave of coronavirus pandemic, with the Covid-19 infection spreading to rural areas, the UP government has started a sanitisation drive in rural areas to tackle the spread of coronavirus.

The UP government has claimed that its representatives have visited over three crore houses at block levels in districts and tested over 2.5 lakh people in rural areas in a week.