61-YR-OLD WOMAN IS UT’S 13TH FATALITY

CHANDIGARH: A 61-year-old woman became Chandigarh’s 13th Covid-19 fatality even as the city received 29 fresh cases on Wednesday. This is the seventh fatality this month. The woman was the resident of Vikas Nagar, Mauli Jagran. She expired at a private Hospital in Panchkula.

“She was diagnosed as positive for Covid-19. She had reported to the hospital with comorbidities including, diabetics, hypertension, hypothyroidism, and left Tibia fracture,” UT’S Covid-19 bulletin said. As many seven people who died of the virus in the city were aged 60 or above. Meanwhile, among the new cases, two nurses of Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, tested positive, taking the UT’S

Covid-19 tally to 780. Four of a family, residing on PGIMER campus also contracted the infection.