Raipur, Aug 23(UNI) Chhattisgarh has registered as many as 557 fresh COVID-19 positive cases during the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 20771 on Sunday.
As per the state health department, six more patients succumbed to virus taking the death toll to 196.
It said that 215 new cases belong to Raipur whereas 64 patients were found in Raigarh, 48 in Janjgir-Champa, 41 in Rajnandgaon, 35 in Bilaspur, 28 in Durg, 17 in Bastar, 15 in Mahasamund, 13 in Koriya, 10 each in Jashpur and Kanker, eight in Balod, seven each in Korba and Kondagaon, six each in Baloda-Bazar, Sarguja and Surajpur, five in Narayanpur, four each in Gariaband and Sukma, two each in Mungeli and Dantewada and one each in Dhamtari, Gourela-Pendra-Marwahi and Bijapur.