Six more persons died of COVID-19 in Chandigarh, taking the fatalities toll to 116 in the Union Territory, a medical bulletin said on Saturday.
The infection tally rose to 9,796 with 290 fresh coronavirus cases in the UT.
There are 2,911 active cases in the city as of now.
A total 351 patients were discharged after they recovered from infection. A total of 6,766 people have been cured so far, as per the bulletin.
A total of 60,311 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 50,164 tested negative while reports of 143 samples were awaited, the bulletin said.
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