Chandigarh records seven COVID-19 deaths; 170 new cases

UT’s death toll stands at 52; 44 per cent of cases still active

Tribune Web Desk

Updated At : 01:35 AM Aug 31, 2020 IST

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 30

Chandigarh recorded seven new coronavirus deaths on Sunday, a medical bulletin showed—a new high in fatalities for the union territory that seen a significant rise in cases in August.

One of the eight deaths took place on on Friday. The rest died on Saturday.

A nine-year-old girl from Hallomajra with liver SOL—lesions in the liver—was among those who died, the UT’s medical bulletin said on Sunday. The child died of cardiac respiratory arrest at Sector 32’s Government Medical College and Hospital on Saturday, the bulletin said.

Only two of the eight who died were over 65—a 65-year-old man from Sector 43 who died at Mohali’s Max Hospital and an 81-year-old woman from Sector 20 who died at Mohali’s Fortis on Saturday.

Two were in their early 40s. A 43-year-old woman from Faidan with interstitial lung disease, scleroderma with tubercular meningitis and Type 2 diabetes died at GMCH-32 on Saturday. A 45-year-old man from Manimajra who was diabetic died of cardiopulmonary arrest on Saturday at Sector 16’s Government Multi-Speciality Hospital.

The last victim was a 52-year-old woman from Sector 30 had adrenal carcinoma—- a cancerous tumour in her adrenal cortex. She died at GMCH-32 on Friday.

Besides, the UT administration added one death that had taken place earlier this month to its tally. A 20-year-old man from Raipur Kalan was brought dead to Panchkula’s Civil Hospital on August 22 and was later moved to GMCH-32, where his tests came back positive.No other details of this person are available yet.

The UT’s death toll now stands at 52.

Chandigarh also recorded 170 new COVID-19 cases, taking UT’s COVID-19 tally to 4,155.

Chandigarh’s COVID-19 cases have risen over 300 per cent in August, when the UT added 3,140 cases to its total infection tally.

About 44 per cent—1,805 infections—of the UT’s cases are still active.

The development also came on a day when Mohali reported 240 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths to its tally, and Panchkula added 77 new infections. This takes tricity’s single-day count to 487.