The number of India’s daily Covid-19 cases crossed the 2,000-mark once again with 2,067 new infections reported in 24 hours, according to the data by Indian health ministry.

Amidst concerns that the ongoing lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 would economically impact India, the government in the southern state of Telangana has decided to implement pay-cuts for government employees and pensioners.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tonight announces a 21-day lockdown across the country from midnight tonight to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

Amidst a lockdown across vast swathes of India, a 68-year-old Filipino, who had recovered after he was tested coronavirus positive, died in a hospital in Mumbai raising the death toll from coronavirus in India to eight.

India’s Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan says he has confined himself to self-quarantine at his residence in New Delhi but tested negative for coronavirus.

India reports its second case of deadly novel coronavirus in Kerala, three days after the southern state reported the country's first case of the infectious disease that originated in China.