Agra: With an addition of 39 new cases, Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal, has recorded the highest single-day hike in the number of corona patients and emerged as the epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak in Uttar Pradesh. The total number of cases in the district is now 142.

Out of the 39 positive cases confirmed in Agra on Monday, 14 are from direct contacts of a Fatehpur Sikri-based tourist guide who had tested positive in Mathura on April 10. Five cases are related to staffers of a private hospital and their family members while another five are related to the family members of the patients of a private clinic where a doctor had also tested positive last week.

The remaining are contacts of people who tested positive earlier, including those who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz in March.

Among the new patients in the district is a junior doctor who had been serving at the isolation ward of SN Medical College (SNMC).