COVID-19: 26 new cases in Chandigarh

Chandigarh on Monday recorded 26 new coronavirus cases, taking the infection count to 21,133, according to a medical bulletin. The death of a 55-year-old man took the toll to 341, as per the bulletin.

There are 169 active cases as of now, it said. A total of 25 patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of cured people to 20,623, it said.

A total of 2,26,503 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 2,04,427 tested negative while reports of 55 samples were awaited, as per the bulletin.