In a worrying development, 15 people in a tour group of Italians who were in Jaipur tested positive for novel coronavirus, DD News reported on Wednesday.

They were travelling in a tour group, which included a 69-year-old Italian man who was confirmed as having coronavirus on Tuesday. The man's wife also tested positive on Tuesday evening. The couple has been kept in isolation at the Jaipur's Sawai Man Singh Hospital.

Twenty-one Italian tourists and three Indian tour operators, who were in the same group as the couple, have been sent to an ITBP quarantine facility in Delhi on Tuesday for suspected coronavirus exposure, official sources said. According to media reports, the test results of the 15 Italians were confirmed by AIIMS.

On Monday, two people—one in Delhi and the other in Hyderabad—were confirmed as having coronavirus. Both had recently travelled abroad, the man in Delhi having come from Italy.

However, they were cured after being kept in isolation.

(This story will be updated)