Chandigarh, Oct 23 (PTI) Chandigarh's COVID-19 tally rose to 13,920 on Friday with 72 fresh cases, while the death toll climbed to 214 as two more people succumbed to the disease, according to a medical bulletin.

Presently, there are 697 active cases in the city, the bulletin said.

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A total of 85 patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of recoveries to 13,009, it said.

A total of 1,00,045 samples have been taken for testing so far. Of these, 85,522 samples tested negative, while reports of 131 are awaited, the bulletin said.

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