Two more cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in India on Monday, taking the total number of reported cases in the country to 5. The Ministry of Health announced earlier today that one new case has been confirmed in the national capital Delhi while another case has been confirmed in Telangana.

An official statement from the government of India read, "One positive case of COVID-19 has been detected in New Delhi, and one has been detected in Telangana. The person from Delhi has a travel history to Italy, while the one from Telangana has a travel history to Dubai. Both the patients are stable." Three people from Kerala, who had returned from Wuhan, China, in January, tested positive for the virus nearly a month ago and were quarantined. All three of them fully recovered a couple of weeks later and were discharged from the hospital after they tested negative for the virus.

The novel coronavirus, now officially called Covid-19, has claimed the lives of more than 3000 people and infected infected over 80000 people across the world. The virus was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, in China. As the death toll and overall cases began rising rapidly across the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency.