Chandigarh recorded 310 Covid-19 cases on Saturday, its highest single-day count in the past six months. The City had reported 294 Covid-19 cases on March 27, the second-highest daily tally in the “Second Wave” of Covid-19.
This is also the first time since September 24, when the pandemic had hit its peak that the number of active cases has crossed the 3,160 mark.
A 74- year- old man died from coronavirus in the city on Saturday. 310 fresh cases pushed the infection count to 27,853 in the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana.
According to a health bulletin, the number of people who died from the infection in the union territory has reached 382 with the death of a Covid-19 positive male person, a resident of Sector 40, a case of Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension at GMSH 16 on Saturday.
The number of active cases rose to 3,162 on Saturday, the bulletin said. A total of 245 patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of cured persons to 24,309.
So far, 3,18,451 samples have been taken for testing, of which 2,89,564 tested negative while reports of 191 are awaited, it said.
Moreover, as many as 4203 beneficiaries were given the Covid-19 vaccine at 55 sites in the city on Saturday.
3,499 beneficiaries were vaccinated on April 1 while 2,938 on April 2. Among the total beneficiaries on Saturday, a maximum of 2,419 were above 45 to 60 years of age followed by 802 above 60 years of age, who got their first dose of vaccine.
The beneficiaries also included healthcare and frontline workers. A total of 88, 299 beneficiaries have been vaccinated in the city so far.