29 new Covid cases in Chandigarh, 117 recover from infection

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Updated At : 04:12 AM Jan 03, 2021 IST

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Chandigarh, January 2

Chandigarh on Saturday reported 29 fresh coronavirus cases and one death, taking the infection count to 19,865, according to a medical bulletin.

The death of an 83-year-old man pushed the toll to 319.

There are 320 active cases as of now.

A total of 117 patients were discharged after they recovered from infection, taking the number of cured persons to 19,226, as per the bulletin.

A total of 1,83,091 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 1,62,317 tested negative, while reports of 88 samples were awaited, the bulletin stated. PTI

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