The World Health Organization recognized the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic before the Indian stock market fell .
On 12 March , India the stock markets suffered the worst crash since June 2017 , with the SENSEX dropping 2,919 points which was its lowest in 23 months while the NIFTY dropped 9 per cent or 950 points.== Conspiracy theories , hoaxes , and misinformation ==
2020 coronavirus pandemic in India