Coronavirus LIVE Update: India's Cases Rise To 59,92,532; 94,503 Dead

Chhatisgarh Reports First Case

A 24-year-old woman has tested positive for Coronavirus in Raipur with travel history to London. She arrived in India on March 15. Her family members have been directed to home quarantine themselves; none have shown any symptom till now, reported Chhattisgarh Health Min TS Singh Deo. 

PIL Asking For Avoiding Mass Gathering Like Shaheen Bagh

A PIL (Public interest litigation) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction for immediate removal/dispersal of mass gatherings from Delhi's Shaheen Bagh in view of Coronavirus.

ICMR Says Further Surveillance For Community Transmission Comes Negative

Following the 500 samples that tested negative, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) stated that a further 320 samples have tested negative suggesting that India has no community transmission yet. 

Medical experts at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) are using hand sanitizers and plastic face shields made by themselves, as makeshift Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) while they look after COVID-19 patients.

Chandigarh's First Case Travelled From UK

The Union Territory of Chandigarh reported its first case of COVID-19. A 23-year-old woman who travelled from London has tested positive for the virus. 

Mumbai To Quarantine People Returning From Middle East

The Mumbai civic body is preparing to quarantine around 26,000 Indians expected to land in the city between Thursday and March 31 from Covid-19-hit Gulf nations such as the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman.

Wuhan Reported No New Cases For The First Time

The Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak of the new strain of Coronavirus reported no new cases for the first time since the outbreak started. 

China, now is grappling with measures to control imported cases as domestic cases are reducing and imported ones are now increasing. Beijing reported 21 new imported cases of the virus on March 18, 2020. 

ICSE Postpones Exams

The Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (ICSE) has announced that they are postponing all 10th (ICSE) and 12th (ISC) exams which were supposed to be held between March 19 and March 31, 2020 due to the rising COVID-19 cases in the country. 

This move comes after the HRD ministry postponed the CBSE and JEE examinations.

Maharashtra, Karnataka, AP, Telangana Report New Cases

Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra have reported new cases of COVID-19. All of them have travel histories. 

Seven more COVID-19 cases confirmed in Telangana and all of them are Indonesian nationals.

Two women tested positive for coronavirus in Mumbai metropolitan region on Thursday, taking the number of such cases in Maharashtra to 47, officials said. While one woman had returned from the UK, another one had come back from Dubai, officials reported. 

Andhra Pradesh reported its second positive case. A person who returned to the state from England on March 15 tested positive for the deadly virus, the state Health Department has said.

One person with travel history to Saudi Arabia has been tested positive for COVID19 in Kodagu today. . He is being treated in an isolated hospital. Total number of positive cases reaches 15 in the state, B Sriramulu, Karnataka Health Minister stated to ANI. 

India's Cases Rise To 166

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has reported 166 confirmed cases in the country.

New cases have been reported in Chandigarh, Kashmir, Karnataka, Delhi, and Maharashtra