Chandigarh, Jan 3 (PTI) Chandigarh recorded 16 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, taking the infection count to 19,881, a medical bulletin issued here said.

One more fatality pushed the death toll to 320, it said.

There are 281 active cases as of now, as per bulletin.

A total of 54 patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the overall recoveries to 19,280, it said.

A total of 1,83,954 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 1,62,803 tested negative while reports of 61 samples were awaited, as per bulletin. PTI CHS VSD

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