COVID: 3 deaths, 119 fresh cases in Chandigarh

Three more people succumbed to coronavirus in Chandigarh on Wednesday as 119 fresh cases took the infection tally in the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana to 16,591, according to a bulletin.

So far, 258 people have died from the infection in the union territory.

There are 1,135 active cases as of now, the bulletin said. A total of 102 patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of cured persons to 15,198. So far, 1,31,280 samples have been taken for testing, of which 1,13,928 tested negative while reports of 96 samples are awaited, the bulletin said.