Summary

The month of March has seen around 5,000 Covid cases against 845 in February, registering an increase of 487 per cent. At 4,963, the number of cases recorded this month is the highest in five months since October and the second highest ever since the pandemic began. The number of tests conducted this month is the highest till date.
For every 100 confirmed cases in Chandigarh, 11 are currently infected, while 88 have recovered from the virus. In the past one week, the number of new infections has grown by an average of 1.01 per cent every day. The national growth rate stands at 0.49 per cent.