35 new COVID-19 cases in Chandigarh

Chandigarh, January 1

Thirty-five more people tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Chandigarh, bringing the infection tally to 19,799 on Friday, according to a medical bulletin.

One more death pushed the toll from the pandemic to 318 in the city, the bulletin said.

Chandigarh has 372 active COVID-19 cases.

Sixty-four more patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of recoveries to 19,109, according to the bulletin.

A total of 1,82,063 samples have been taken for COVID-19 testing in the Union Territory and 1,61,358 of them have tested negative while reports of 92 are awaited, it said. --- PTI