COVID-19: 87-yr-old dies, 55 new cases in Chandigarh

Chandigarh, November 2

Chandigarh on Monday reported one more COVID-19 death, taking the toll to 227, while 55 new cases took the infection count to 14,528 in the Union Territory, according to a medical bulletin.

An 87-year-old man, who tested positive for novel coronavirus, died at a private hospital in Mohali.

He was suffering from hypertension and asthma, as per the bulletin.

There are 593 active cases in the UT as of now, it said.

Seventy-six patients were discharged after they recovered from infection, taking the number of cured persons to 13,708.

A total of 1,08,911 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 93,726 tested negative while reports of 106 samples are awaited, it stated. PTI