Covid-19 LIVE: Number of Coronavirus cases in West Bengal jumps to 7

UK government assured Indian citizens whose visas may be ending and are stranded due to the lack of flights to India that no one will be “unfairly penalised” for events related to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said that there are 360 confirmed coronavirus cases in India that includes 41 foreigners, reports ANI.

Number of people testing positive in Bengal has jumped to seven. The new infected people are the parents of the 22-year-old resident of a south Kolkata high-rise complex who returned from London on March 13 and allegedly roamed freely and visited his father’s shops before falling ill. The third patient is one of the maids who worked for the family.

Fifteen more people have been confirmed positive of coronavirus, the state's health minister KK Shailaja said on Sunday, reports ANI.

The Budget Session of Parliament is likely to be concluded on Monday after passage of the Finance Bill in both Houses, sources said on Sunday. The session, which was earlier scheduled to conclude on April 3, is now likely to be adjourned sine die on March 23, sources said, reports PTI.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) wrote to PM Narendra Modi appreciating his 'gesture of motivating the public to show gratitude towards the doctors, nurses and healthcare workers who are risking their lives to contain the coronavirus, reports ANI.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao declares lockdown till 31st March in the state, under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 as a precautionary measure against coronavirus. The chief minister also said that the state government will provide 12 kg rice free of cost and ₹1500 to over 87 lakh people holding white ration cards in the state, reports ANI.

Dubai carrier Emirates Airline announced on Sunday it will suspend all passenger flights from March 25 amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, reports AFP.

An official of aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) clarified by saying that all domestic flights to and from the Delhi airport will continue to operate.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday announced that 15 districts in the state would be under lockdown in the first phase till Wednesday in wake of the coronavirus outbreak, reports PTI.

The lockdown of Belgium due to the coronavirus epidemic will continue for at least the next eight weeks, health minister Maggie De Block told the De Zondag paper on Sunday, reports Reuters.

Iraq's government has extended a curfew on travel in and out of Baghdad until March 28 as part of strict measures to prevent the coronavirus from spreading, it said in a statement on Sunday, reports Reuters.

France on Sunday reported its first death of a hospital doctor from coronavirus. Health Minister Olivier Veran said that as far as he knew the man who died on Saturday was the "first hospital doctor to be hit", reports AFP.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that six locally transmitted coronavirus cases reported in the capital city of Delhi, reports PTI.

Singapore reported 23 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, taking the city state's tally of the infection to 455, according to a health ministry statement, reports Reuters.