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Chandigarh March 3The COVID-19 infection tally in Punjab climbed to 184310 with 778 new cases reported on Wednesday while 12 more deaths pushed the toll to 5872 according to a medical bulletin. Punjab has been seeing an upswing in the number of fresh COVID-19 cases for the past three weeks. A total of 365 coronavirus patients were discharged after recovering from infection taking the number of cured persons to 172845 as per the bulletin. In neighbouring Haryana the state recorded 240 fresh coronavirus cases on Wednesday taking the total number of infections in the state to 271365 a health department bulletin said. Meanwhile the Union territory of Chandigarh on Wednesday reported 56 more coronavirus cases taking the infection tally to 21962 a medical bulletin stated..