Chandigarh, Oct 29 (PTI) Chandigarh's COVID-19 tally climbed to 14,292 on Thursday with 80 fresh cases, while the death toll reached 225 as one more person succumbed to the disease, according to a medical bulletin said.

A 21-year-old coronavirus positive woman died at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research on Thursday, the bulletin said.

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She was suffering from chronic kidney disease, it said.

The number of active COVID-19 cases in Chandigarh stands at 665, the bulletin stated.

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Forty-three patients were also discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of recoveries to 13,402, it said.

A total of 1,05,409 samples have been taken for testing so far. Of these, 90,480 samples have tested negative, while reports of 117 are awaited, the bulletin said.

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