Chandigarh, Nov 26 (PTI) Four more coronavirus-related fatalities pushed Chandigarh's death toll to 270 on Thursday, while 116 fresh cases took the infection tally to 17,051.

According to a medical bulletin, there are 1,169 active cases in the city as of now.

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A total of 80 patients were discharged after they recovered from COVID-19, taking the number of cured people to 15,612, it stated.

A total of 1,37,442 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 1,19,600 tested negative while reports of 136 samples were awaited, the bulletin stated.

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