India News | COVID-19: 86 New Cases, One More Death in Chandigarh
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Chandigarh on Tuesday reported one more COVID-19-related fatality, which took the death toll to 228, while 86 new cases pushed the infection count to 14,608 in the Union Territory, as per a medical bulletin.
Chandigarh, Nov 3 (PTI) Chandigarh on Tuesday reported one more COVID-19-related fatality, which took the death toll to 228, while 86 new cases pushed the infection count to 14,608 in the Union Territory, as per a medical bulletin.
A 56-year-old city-based man, who had tested positive for the coronavirus, died at a private hospital at Derabassi in Mohali, it said.
He was suffering from diabetes and hypertension, the bulletin said.
There are 629 active cases as of now, it said.
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The bulletin said that a total of 43 patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of cured persons to 13,751.
It said that a total of 1,10,083 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 94,814 tested negative while reports of 119 samples are awaited.
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