Equity benchmark Sensex plunged over 1,100 points in opening session on Monday tracking losses in global equities as unabated spike in COVID-19 cases across the world has hammered economic growth, sending the world into an economic recession.

 A woman infected with the coronavirus died at a state-run hospital in north Bengal on Monday, taking the total number of COVID-19 deaths in West Bengal to two, hospital sources said.

Pakistani squash legend Azam Khan has died of coronavirus in London, his family said.

Thiruvananthapuram: Twenty more people were detected with coronavirus in Kerala on Saturday, taking the total number of those undergoing treatment for the deadly infection to 181, Health Minister K K Shailaja said.

Bilaspur: A Congress MLA was booked on Sunday in Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh for violation of lockdown norms in place for the novel coronavirus outbreak after he announced distribution of free ration and a crowd assembled outside his house, police said.

New Delhi: The number of novel coronavirus cases in Delhi climbed to 72 on Sunday after 23 fresh cases were reported in a day, the Health Department said.

Mangaluru: District in-charge Minister Kota Srinivasa Poojary said that so far 182 persons' throat swabs were sent for testing in Dakshina Kannada district, of which seven persons have been tested positive for coronavirus and remaining 161 have been tested negative.

Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany's Hesse state, has committed suicide apparently after becoming "deeply worried" over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, state premier Volker Bouffier said Sunday.