Chandigarh, Nov 20 (PTI) The tally of coronavirus cases in Chandigarh, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, rose to 16,472 on Friday with 150 more people contracting the infection in a day, according to a medical bulletin.

The death of a 40-year-old COVID-19 patient pushed the death toll in the Union Territory to 255, it stated.

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The Union Territory currently has 1,121 active cases. 

A total of 133 patients were discharged after they recovered from infection, taking the number of cured persons to 15,096, according to the bulletin.

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So far, 1,30,070 samples have been taken for testing and of them, 1,12,844 tested negative while reports of 105 samples were awaited, it stated.

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