No community transmission case reported so far: Indian government

"There is no community transmission in the country so far," Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Health Ministry, said during his daily press briefings.

Speaking on the measures taken by the Indian government to handle the COVID-19 outbreak, he said: "170 districts have been declared as hotspots and 260 districts as potential hotspots across India."

He said 270 people have recovered from the disease in the last one day.

"1,306 people have recovered so far," Agarwal said.

He said districts across India will be classified into 3 categories - hotspots, non-hotspots and green zones.

The total number of positive Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 cases in India increased to 11,439 as the South Asian country of massive 1.3 billion people entered into the second phase of an unprecedented nationwide lockdown on Wednesday.

As per the government update, 1,306 people of 11,439 have been cured while 377 others have died in Coronavirus.

According to John Hopkins University & Medicine, 11,487 people have been infected with the contagion.

Amid the plight of the migrant workers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday extended the lockdown, which was due to end on Apr 14 midnight, till May 3 to stem the spread of the pandemic virus but urged people to strictly follow the norms of social distancing for the next one week to avail some relaxations.

"There should be no letup in the implementation of lockdown. All regions in the states will be monitored very closely on full compliance of the lockdown. Only those regions that will show no evidence of cases or its spread will be allowed restricted movements after Apr 20," said Modi during his morning address to the nation.

Likewise all passenger trains, metros as well as flights will remain shut till May 3.

Meanwhile, the Centre on Wednesday issued revised guidelines which will be followed by 1.3 billion people till May 3.

According to the guidelines, travel by air, rail and road, operation of educational and training institutions, industrial and commercial activities, hospitality services, cinema halls and shopping complexes will remain closed during the period.

The government statement said all social, political or other events as well religious places will also remain shut.

The government has also made the use of homemade face covers at workplace and public places mandatory.