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Indian market crashes, down by over 2,000 points

| @indiablooms | Mar 12, 2020, at 12:30 pm

Mumbai/IBNS: Amid the fear over the Novel Coronavirus outbreak, the Indian market crashed on Thursday with BSE Sensex going down by over 2,000 in few hours after the opening bell.

As per the last update, BSE Sensex went down by 2,090.71 points.

NIFTY is down by 657.10 points.

The fall took place after the Indian government on Wednesday suspended all visas till Apr 15.

Only diplomatic, official, United Nations/International Organisations, employment and project visas are exempted.

As of Wednesday, 67 people in India have contracted the virus with a large number of them belonging to the tourist group from Italy. 

The virus has spread to over 100 countries already.

(Image Credit: UNI)

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