West Bengal to go on complete lockdown till Mar 31

The complete lockdown will take place from 5 pm on Tuesday to Mar 31, state CM Mamata Banerjee announced.

Kolkata reported its first Coronavirus infected patient's death on Monday.

So far, nine COVID infection cases have been reported form the state.

According to reports, a woman from Kolkata's Alipore area, who recently returned from London, and another person, who came back from Egypt weeks ago, were found Covid-19 positive after the first screening.

"For more conformation, we have sent their samples again to NICED for second test,"a senior health official said.

Six more Covid-19 infected patients are undergoing treatments at Beliaghata ID hospital while another 57-year-old Covid-19 patient, who was admitted in Salt Lake AMRI hospital, died on Monday late afternoon.

Covid-19 Heads-Up:

To stop the spread of the pandemic, India has placed its major cities and about 75 districts under a stringent lockdown amid cases of coronavirus emerging and claiming lives.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose appeal saw a successful "Janata Curfew" (people's lockdown) on Sunday, has urged people to take the lockdown seriously after many were found flouting the rules.

According to worldometers.info, India has till Tuesday morning 511 positive cases with 10 lives lost to the virus (Indian official toll is 9 so far). 

There are 381,760 coronavirus cases worldwide with 16,558 people succumbing to the virus, according to worldometers.info. A total of 102,429. people have recovered.