Chandigarh reports two coronavirus deaths; 61 new cases

Chandigarh, October 25

The death of two more people due to coronavirus pushed Chandigarh’s fatality count to 218 while 61 new cases took the infection tally to 14,038 in the Union Territory on Sunday, according to a medical bulletin.

There are 653 active cases in the city as of now, it said.

A total of 80 patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of cured persons to 13,167, as per the bulletin.

A total of 1,01,219 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 86,568 tested negative while reports of 109 samples are awaited, it said. PTI