COVID-19: 17 new cases in Chandigarh

Chandigarh on Saturday reported 17 new coronavirus cases, taking the infection tally to 21,220, according to a medical bulletin.The death of a 75-year-old woman took the toll 345, as per the bulletin.

There are 123 active cases as of now, it stated.A total of 35 patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of cured people to 20,752, as per the bulletin.

A total of 2,33,067 samples have been taken for testing so far and 2,10,904 of them have tested negative while reports of 81 samples were awaited, according to the bulletin.