One more resident succumbed to the Covid-19 in the union territory of Chandigarh as 87 fresh infections were detected on Wednesday. “With this, the death toll was recorded at 266. The positive case tally reached 16925 in the city”, stated Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin. There were 1127 active cases till the evening. 77 patients have recovered in the past 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries to 15532, the bulletin stated.135876 samples have so far been tested in the city.
A total of 1595 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, after neighboring states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal put fresh restrictions to stem the spread of COVID-19, the Chandigarh Administration will on Thursday mull over putting fresh restrictions in the city.
Punjab Governor and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore will hold a meeting with senior UT officers to review COVID-19 situation in the city. On the agenda list will be a review of the decision of opening of schools, plan of opening of coaching institutions, enhanced amount of fine for violation of COVID safety protocols among others.