India News | COVID-19: 39 New Cases in Chandigarh

Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Chandigarh on Thursday reported 39 new coronavirus cases that took the infection count to 19,748 in the Union Territory, according to a medical bulletin.

Chandigarh, Dec 31 (PTI) Chandigarh on Thursday reported 39 new coronavirus cases that took the infection count to 19,748 in the Union Territory, according to a medical bulletin.

One more death in the city pushed the toll to 317, and there are 386 active cases as of now in Chandigarh, it said.

The bulletin said that a total of 78 patients were discharged after they recovered from infection, taking the number of cured persons to 19,045.

A total of 1,81,186 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 1,60,534 tested negative while reports of 97 samples were awaited, as per the bulletin. PTI CHS VSD

(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)

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