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1,795 Covid cases reported in Chandigarh, positive rate recorded at 26.17 per cent

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Chandigarh reported 1,795 new cases over the last 24 hours, a health bulletin from the Chandigarh administration showed on Saturday.Chandigarh has 8,511 active cases—over 470 per cent rise since last Saturday. Chandigarh’s added over 9,000 new cases in the same period—67 per cent of this since Wednesday, when the union territory began reporting over 1,000 cases a day.Chandigarh’s positivity rate stands at 26.71 per cent.

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