Cases from Nizamuddin

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New Delhi:The religious congregation of 2000 people at Delhi's Nizamuddin has thrown up several corona positive cases in the country from many regions including Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and the Andaman and Nicobar islands. 

The Telangana Chief Minister's Office Tweeted on Monday as Six people from Telangana who attended a religious congregation at Markaz in Nizamuddin area of New Delhi from March 13-15 succumbed with COVID19. Following the identification of the cause, the state intensified its efforts to locate participants in the event and to the contact trail.

The suspected outbreak was discovered as it emerged several hid their travel history to foreign countries and a large congregation was held on March 13-5 at a markaz in Nizamuddin. The area was later sealed and hundreds of those present were whisked away to hospitals.

The Jawaharlal Nehru stadium prepared for a possible large size quarantine centre in case there is a huge outbreak of the virus. Reports are emerging that COVID-19 cases linked to this gathering are being across the country in J&K, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andaman and Nicobar and Telangana.

As many as 1,400 people continued to stay at the Tabligh-e-Jamaat's "Markaz" in Delhi's Nizamuddin West even after the event. The Telangana Chief Medical Officer confirmed that six people who attended this congregation have died in Telangana after testing positive for coronavirus. 

A cleric who was there had died after testing positive for coronavirus in Srinagar last week.

More than 2,000 delegates, including from Malaysia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Kyrgyzstan, attended the congregation. 

Constituting a terrific risk for those present and others who may have come in contact or are even now coming into contact through transit, it is feared this may be a form of community transmission.

This is so symptomatic of the virus spread where even once infected person can pass it onto hundreds of others.

Jammu and Kashmir where many of these people returned is already on alert. The district administration in all ten districts traced those who might not have disclosed their travel history or contact history with Tabligi Jamaat.

Another worrying strand that has emerged is that the list of those who attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin from Jammu & Kashmir is huge. Clearly, many of them are not in quarantine yet and the administration and police are making efforts to identity, trace and isolate.

It is learnt that the government has prepared a 50 page list of people from J&K who attended the congregation or came in contact with those. Efforts are being made to identify these people and isolate them.

 

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