Updated On: 07 May, 2021 09:20 AM IST | Lucknow | PTI
This comes at a time when there are reports of hospitals turning away patients and long waits at crematoriums at several places in the state as it battles the second wave of the pandemic.

A man along with his cow walks past a mural on Covid-19 painted on a wall along the roadside in New Delhi. Pic/ AFP
Amid the surge in coronavirus cases, the Uttar Pradesh government is providing oximeters and thermal scanners for cows housed in the state`s ‘gaushalas’.
The death toll from Covid-19 rose to 14,501 in the state on Thursday with 353 more fatalities, while 26,780 new cases pushed the infection tally to 14,25,919, an official said.