5 new COVID-19 cases detected in Chandigarh; total now 102
May 4, 2020, 18:48 IST
Chandigarh, May 4 () The number of coronavirus cases reached 102 in Chandigarh on Monday, with five more people testing positive for the disease in the Union territory, officials said here.
A 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy are among the five fresh cases, a medical bulletin said.
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All of them are family contacts of a COVID-positive patient and are residents of the Bapu Dham colony, which has been declared a containment zone and is the worst-affected area of the city, it said.
Twenty-one coronavirus patients have been discharged from hospitals here after they were fully cured of the disease, the bulletin stated.
A total of 1,678 samples have been tested so far and of these, reports of 30 samples are awaited, it said, adding that 80 cases are active in the city. CHS VSD IJT(This story has not been edited by www.businessinsider.in and is auto–generated from a syndicated feed we subscribe to.)