Five more residents of Chandigarh succumbed to COVID-19 on Friday taking the total death toll to 206 in the city. The COVID-19 fatality rate increased to 1.52 from 14.6 recorded a day before. The daily fatality rate stood at a high nine percent with five fatalities and 55 new cases reported in the last 24 hours.
As Chandigarh continues to struggle to bring down the mortality rate in the battle against the deadly virus, the mortality rate has jumped from 1.30 percent to 1.52 percent in the past fortnight.
“The total case tally stood at 13532 which included 974 active cases. 120 patients have recovered in the past 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries to 12352”, stated Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin.
Notably, the Central Government had on Wednesday expressed concern over the high COVID-19 fatality rate in Chandigarh and asked the UT Administration to focus on bringing down the mortality rate.
While other COVID-19 parameters have witnessed improvement in the last fortnight, the fatality rate remains high in the city.
The recovery rate has increased to 91 percent while the active ratio of cases was recorded at 7.1 percent which means for every 100 confirmed cases, 7 are currently infected in the city.
The average growth rate of COVID-19 was recorded at 0.6 percent while the cumulative test positivity rate of 14.4 percent was recorded.