COVID-19: 36 new cases in Chandigarh

Chandigarh on Wednesday reported 36 new coronavirus cases, taking the infection count to 21,015, according to a medical bulletin.The death of a 59-year-old man took the toll to 336, as per bulletin. There are 186 active COVID-19 cases in the union territory as of now, it said.

A total of 31 patients were discharged after they recovered the infection, taking the total number of cured people to 20,493, the bulletin said.A total of 2,20,301 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them 1,98,343 tested negative while reports of 140 were awaited, it said.