COVID-19: 14 new cases in Chandigarh

Chandigarh on Tuesday reported 14 new coronavirus cases, taking the infection count to 21,154, according to a medical bulletin.

The death of a 57-year-old man took the toll to 342, it said.

There are 168 active cases as of now, as the per bulletin.

A total of 21 patients were discharged after they recovered from infection, taking the number of cured persons to 20,644, it said.

A total of 2,27,718 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 2,05,621 tested negative while reports of 80 samples are awaited, as per the bulletin.