Chandigarh, Nov 7 (PTI) Two more people died from coronavirus in Chandigarh on Saturday while 98 new cases pushed the union territory's infection count to 15,025, according to a bulletin.

So far, 232 people have succumbed to the infection in the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana.

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There are 815 active cases as of now, the bulletin said.

A total of 53 patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of cured persons to 13,978, as per the bulletin.

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So far, 1,14,773 samples have been taken for testing, of which 99,067 tested negative while reports of 127 samples are awaited, it said.

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