COVID-19: 13 new cases in Chandigarh

Chandigarh on Thursday reported 13 new coronavirus cases, taking the infection count to 21,184, according to a medical bulletin. The death of a 78-year-old man took the toll to 344, as per the bulletin.

There are 140 active COVID-19 cases in the union territory as of now, it said. A total of 30 patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of cured people to 20,700, it said.

A total of 2,30,418 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 2,08,291 tested negative while reports of 122 samples were awaited, as per the bulletin.