COVID-19 pandemic in Chandigarh | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Chandigarh, India |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Arrival date | 19 March 2020 (4 years, 8 months and 4 days) |
Confirmed cases | 357 (15 June 2020) |
Active cases | 51 |
Suspected cases‡ | 11 |
Recovered | 301 (15 June 2020) |
Deaths | 5 (2 June 2020) |
Fatality rate | 1.4% |
Government website | |
Official website | |
‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out. |
The first case of the COVID-19 pandemic in India was reported on 30 January 2020, originating from China. Slowly, the pandemic spread to various states and union territories including the union territory of Chandigarh. The first case was recorded in this region on 19 March 2020.[1] As on 24 May, total number of cases in Chandigarh was 225. This contains 43 active cases as 179 successfully recovered from it and three died from the virus.[2][3]
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