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UP moots a dedicated Covid-19 corpus in addition to CM Relief Fund

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Media personnel maintain social distance as they interview health workers sanitising an area near Nizamuddin, after people who attended the religious congregation at Tabligh-e-Jamaat's Markaz, tested positive for Covid-19, in New Delhi. Photo: PTI

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow

3 min read Last Updated : Apr 02 2020 | 6:06 PM IST

The Uttar Pradesh government is planning to set up a dedicated fund to fight the coronavirus outbreak.

UP chief minister Adityanath has already issued the necessary directives to the state chief secretary and the CM’s secretariat in this regard.

“The proposed Covid fund will be in addition to the existing CM Relief Fund,” UP additional chief secretary (home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi told the media here this evening and added a formal announcement would soon be made .

He said UP had so far received about Rs 8 crore in the distress fund against coronavirus.

Meanwhile, Awasthi said the government had allowed for the home

Topics : Coronavirus Yogi Adityanath government UP government ecommerce firms doorstep delivery

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