5 new COVID-19 cases detected in Chandigarh; total now 102

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.

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.