Chandigarh reports 240 new coronavirus cases, three deaths

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 21

Chandigarh reported 240 new coronavirus cases and three deaths, an administration-issued medical bulletin in the evening said.

Chandigarh’s COVID count stands at 10,298.

A 36-year-old man from Palsora suffering from acute kidney injury and latent autoimmune diabetes died at Chandigarh’s Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research on Monday. The other two fatalities were both over 65— a 68-year-old man from Sector 24 with hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes who died at PGI and a 70-year-old man from Sector 15 who died at Mohali’s Fortis Hospital.

The development takes Chandigarh’s death toll to 123.

The union territory has reported a significant rise in coronavirus throughout September. Chandigarh has reported 5,952 new COVID cases and 67 fatalities since the beginning of the month—a 251 per cent rise in infections and 219 per cent rise in deaths since the end of last month.

For comparison, the city had reported 1,580 new COVID cases from August 1 to August 21.

Twenty-six per cent of the UT’s cases are still active.