Chandigarh, Sep 1 (PTI) Chandigarh reported one more COVID-19 fatality on Tuesday, taking the death toll to 57, while 204 new cases pushed the infection tally in the Union territory to 4,550.

A 76-year-old man succumbed to the disease at the government medical college and hospital here, as per a medical bulletin.

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He was also suffering from diabetes and chronic kidney disease, it said.

There are 1,939 active cases of the disease here now, the bulletin added.

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A total 120 more patients have been discharged after they recovered from the infection. This takes the number of recoveries to 2,551, it said.

A total of 31,268 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 26,440 tested negative, while reports in 93 cases are awaited, as per the bulletin.

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