A 78-year-old male resident from Sector 19 succumbed to COVID-19 on Wednesday in Chandigarh. The city also reported 19 fresh cases taking the total number to 619 while 11 fatalities have been recorded so far.
“The 78 years old deceased was diagnosed as positive for COVID-19 at Civil Hospital Sector-6, Panchkula on July 14 and died there. He was a patient of chronic heart Disease with Coronary stenting. He was admitted at Panchkula for the last three days and was administered oxygen also,” said Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin.
Fresh cases have been reported from Sector 29, 25, Bapu Dham colony in Sector 26, Sector 38, 46, 48, 63, Khuda Alisher, Dhanas, Burail and Raipur Khurd in the city. Apart from this, 13 patients were declared cured and discharged from hospitals.
While the total positive cases stood at 619, the active cases were 149 till the evening, the bulletin added. With 459 recoveries till now, the recovery rate of COVID-19 patients stood at 74 percent in Chandigarh.
So far, 10050 samples have been tested in the city.
Meanwhile due to the surge in COVID-19 positive cases in Chandigarh, the UT Administration on Wednesday announced to carry out random testing, banning of physical press conferences among others measures to stem the spread of the virus. The PGIMER will start conducting random sampling for COVID-19 of the patients coming to the emergency ward and OPDs. The directions in this regard were issued by the Punjab Governor and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore during his review meeting on Wednesday.