Lucknow, Sep 6 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh on Sunday reported its highest single-day spike of 6,777 COVID-19 cases and 77 deaths, the state health department said.

With this, the state's infection tally has reached 2,66,283 and the death toll mounted to 3,920.

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Additional Chief Secretary, Medical and Health, Amit Mohan Prasad said 6,777 fresh COVID-19 cases were registered in the state.

The previous single-day highest spike of 6,692 COVID-19 cases was recorded on Saturday.

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The state now has 61,625 active COVID-19 cases, Prasad said.

Till now, 2,00,738 patients have been discharged after recovering from the disease.

He said the state tested 1,55,946 samples for COVID-19 on Saturday.

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