Chandigarh, Jun 25 (PTI) The number of COVID-19 cases in Chandigarh rose to 423 on Thursday after three more people tested positive for the disease, according to a medical bulletin.

The new patients are a four-year-old girl, a seven-year-old boy and 32-year-old woman, all of them family members of an infected person in Ramdarbar area, it said.

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Seven coronavirus patients were discharged from various hospitals after they recovered from the disease. A total of 329 people have been cured so far, the bulletin said

A total of 7,072 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 6,618 tested negative while reports of 29 people are awaited, it said.

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The number of active cases in the city stands at 88 and fatalities at six.

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