Chandigarh reports 261 new coronavirus cases; two die

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 6

Chandigarh reported 261 new coronavirus cases on Sunday and two deaths, a medical bulletin from the Chandigarh administration said in the evening.

Two men in their 50s—a 58-year-old man from Dhanas and a 50-year-old man from Manimajra—died at Chandigarh’s Government Medical College and Hospital in Sector 32.  The bulletin said both were diabetic, and the Manimajra resident also suffered from hypertension.

The developments took the union territory’s death toll to 71 from 5,763 infections. Chandigarh has been seeing a rise in both cases and fatality count since the beginning of this month. The UT has been reporting 200-plus infections every day since September 1 and has added over 1,440 infections and 15 deaths in less than a week.

Forty-four per cent of the UT’s cases are still active.  

Meanwhile, 149 people were released from quarantine from hospitals as well as home isolation, the bulletin said.

Tricity’s cases rise

The development comes on a day when Mohali reported 215 new coronavirus and eight deaths, and Panckhula recorded 137 new cases and two more deaths. Tricity’s total single-day count on Sunday stands at 613.

Tricity’s been showing an uptick in cases since the beginning of this month, adding 3,777 cases—27 per cent of the its total 13,723 cases so far— in less than a week since September 1.

About 42 per cent cases are still active in the tricity.