About 2000 Tablighi Jamaat Followers Joining Congregation from AP, Telangana
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Almost 2,000 followers of the Tablighi
Jamaat are estimated to have attended from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on
March 15-17 congregation of the Islamic missionary movement in New Delhi’s
Nizamuddin. The congregation spot, however emerged as new Coronavirus hotspot,
raising deep concern among governments of the two states.
Telangana officials say altogether 6
people from the state, who attended the congregation, had died of Covid-19, and
the government was trying to trace the people who they had been in contact
with. Andhra Pradesh discovered 11 people who had been infected by the virus
after attending the event.
About 25-30 people from each district of
the two Telugu-speaking states attended the congregation, said a statement
released by the Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday. Telangana has 33
districts and Andhra Pradesh 13 districts.
The Andhra government has so far
identified around 800 people who attended the Jamaat congregation. The
Telangana government has identified 1,030 people who did so.
A statement released by the AP, CM, YS
Jagan Mohan Reddy, reveals, “Officials are gathering information from the event
organisers, police officials, the railway department as they travelled in
trains, and from various other sources and tracking down everyone”.
“As many as 17 new positive cases of
Covid-19 had been detected in the state since Monday night”, a bulletin issued
by the Andhra Pradesh government on states.
On the other hands, the Telangana Health
Minister, Etala Rajender, asked all those who returned from the congregation to
get themselves tested and remain under quarantine so that the disease doesn’t
spread.
