Covid-19 pandemic’s downward trend continued in Chandigarh on Monday as 48 fresh cases were recorded, the lowest in the past 83 days. The city has been continuously registering a decline in Covid-19 infections since May 9 when it had registered the highest single-day spike of 895 cases. However, there was no respite in the number of fatalities in the city as two more people lost their lives to the contagion.
The death toll now stands at 774 and with 48 cases, the city’s tally increased to 60,707. As 139 more patients were cured, there are now 740 active cases, the union territory's health bulletin showed. The total number of samples tested in the last 24 hours was 1664 while the overall number of tests conducted was 525,544.