67 new Covid cases in Chandigarh

Chandigarh, March 2

Chandigarh on Tuesday reported 67 more coronavirus cases, taking the infection tally to 21,906, according to a medical bulletin.

The death of a 70-year-old woman took the toll to 354, as per the bulletin.

The number of active cases rose from 430 on Monday to 472 on Tuesday, it said.

A total of 24 patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of cured people to 21,080, it said.

A total of 2,58,184 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 2,35,319 tested negative while reports of 117 were awaited, the bulletin said. PTI