The Ministry of External Affairs in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha said that 276 Indians are infected with coronavirus abroad including 255 in Iran, 12 in UAE, 5 in Italy, and 1 each in Hong Kong, Kuwait, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to India on 30 January 2020 from China. There have since been a total of 147 confirmed cases in the country, with many of them having travel history either with Italy or the Middle East.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that total number of confirmed COVID19 cases in India has risen to 152.