India News | Chandigarh Sees 2 More COVID-19 Deaths, 63 New Cases

Chandigarh, Oct 9 (PTI) Two more fatalities due to COVID-19 in Chandigarh raised the toll to 188 while 63 fresh cases pushed the infection count to 12,985 on Friday, according to a medical bulletin.

The Union Territory has 1,292 active cases of the novel coronavirus, as of now, the bulletin said.

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Another 161 patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of recoveries to 11,505, it said.

A total of 85,187 samples have been taken for COVID-19 testing and 71,678 of them have tested negative while reports of 102 are awaited, according to the bulletin.

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