Chandigarh on Thursday broke all previous records of single-day spike with 634 cases of Covid-19 since the pandemic first began in March, last year. With this, the city’s Covid-19 tally shot up to 36,404 which now has 4273 active cases. Four more deaths on Thursday took the toll to 427, according to a medical bulletin.
While cases were reported from all sectors, Manimajra reported 46 new cases and Mauli Jagran had 13 cases. As many as 482 people were discharged from various facilities of the city, taking the total number of cured persons to 31,704.
Over the last four days during the ongoing second wave of the pandemic, the city has been witnessing over 600 covid-19 cases.
On Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Chandigarh witnessed 625, 612, 602, 622 covid-19 cases respectively.
During the first wave of covid-19, the highest single-day spike was reported on September 13, last year with 449 cases. City hospitals are bearing the brunt of sporadic increase in cases as Covid bed occupancy has reached its maximum capacity.