COVID-19: 3 more deaths, 98 cases in Chandigarh

Chandigarh, November 23

Three more deaths in Chandigarh took the COVID-19 toll to 263 while 98 new cases of novel coronavirus pushed the infection count to 16,769 in the Union Territory on Monday, according to a medical bulletin.

There are 1,117 active cases, as of now, in Chandigarh, it said.         

The bulletin said that a total of 72 patients were discharged after they recovered from infection, taking the number of cured persons to 15,389.

It said that a total of 1,33,478 samples had been taken for testing so far and of them, 1,15,935 tested negative while reports of 132 samples were awaited. PTI