A 75 years old city resident died due to Covid-19 as 155 fresh positive cases surfaced in the union territory of Chandigarh on Thursday. “The death toll reached 254 and the total case tally stood at 16,322 in Chandigarh”, stated Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin.The Covid-19 mortality rate stood at 1.55 percent in the city. According to the bulletin, “There were 1105 active cases till the evening. 130 patients have recovered in the past 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries to 14963.” The recovery rate was recorded at 91.6 percent while the active ratio of cases was recorded at 6.7 percent which means for every 100 confirmed cases, six are currently infected in the city.
Among 155 fresh cases, 90 were males and 65 were females. A maximum of 12 cases were reported in Sector 44 here. 128558 samples have so far been tested in the city. 1706 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.