Chandigarh, Jan 9 (PTI) The COVID-19 death toll in Chandigarh rose to 327 on Saturday with one more fatality, while 50 new cases pushed the infection count to 20,251 a medical bulletin issued here said.

It said an 85-year-old man died of COVID-19.

There are 228 active cases as of now, the bulletin said.

A total of 59 patients were discharged after they recovered from infection, taking the overall recoveries to 19,696, as per bulletin.

A total of 1,91,673 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 1,70,482 have tested negative while reports of 82 samples were awaited, the bulletin added. CHS VSD

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