New Delhi lockdown shuts all transport, offices and factories

Restrictions to last until month-end and come on top of nationwide curfew

Indian families in New Delhi bang pans and clap to cheer health workers fighting the coronavirus. The Indian capital will observe a complete lockdown from 6 a.m. March 23 until March 31. © AP

KIRAN SHARMA, Nikkei staff writer

March 23, 2020 03:07 JST

NEW DELHI -- The sprawling Indian capital of New Delhi, home to 20 million, will go under complete lockdown from 6 a.m. Monday through March 31, the minister in charge of the city said Sunday.

With three more people reported succumbing to the virus on Sunday, a total of seven patients have died in India, a country of 1.3 billion which has so far reported 360 positive cases, including 27 in Delhi.