Dozens of coronavirus cases in Tablighi Jamat Mosque at Nizamuddin develop symptoms, 2000 quarantined: area cordoned off

Around 200 people from the Nizamuddin Dargah and surrounding areas were taken to varied hospitals in Delhi on Monday after they showed suspected coronavirus symptoms. As per reports, the world round the Nizamuddin Dargah and therefore the Mosque near it’s been cordoned off by Delhi police.

Earlier this month, several hundred people from across India and abroad had attended the Islamic religious conference by the “Tableeghi Jamaat” preachers at the Banglewali Masjid, the Mosque near the Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah. Many cases of coronavirus deaths have now been traced to the Muslim event at the Banglewali Mosque which had seen an outsized gathering. The Mosque is that the it’s the worldwide centre for the Tablighi network and therefore the origin of the Tablighi Jamaat, as per Wikipedia.

The Mosque reportedly regularly hosts Islamic followers and preachers from everywhere India and from many nations within the world. From here, preachers are sent to Mosques everywhere India.

The event also saw visitors from Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Kyrgyzstan. On Thursday, a 65-year-old man had died of COVID-19 in Srinagar. He had also attended an equivalent event. the person had reportedly first travelled to the Deoband seminary in UP before going back to Srinagar.

Many of the opposite attendees had also travelled to all or any over India to their respective home towns. After the event, people had reportedly left the premises in groups of 20-30 people in buses. While an Indonesian and 6 Saudi citizens were sent to their home countries, over 1200 people were still staying inside the Mosque, as per reports.

On Friday, 6 persons were tested positive for coronavirus in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. All of them had attended the religious event in Delhi and had returned via Kolkata.

Other confirmed cases who had attended the event at the Banglewali Mosque include a 52-year-old man from Guntur and a person from Tamil Nadu who also died of the disease.

On 19 March, 7 Indonesian nationals who had travelled from Delhi to Karimnagar for an Islamic event had tested positive for coronavirus. all of them had travelled within the same coach.

On Sunday, 4 members of an equivalent family tested positive for the coronavirus in Tamil Nadu , taking the entire number of infected persons to 50 within the state. The 4 were reportedly contacts of the 2 Thai nationals who had tested positive earlier. Both Thai nationals were a neighborhood of the religious event in Delhi. As per a report within the Week, Islamic preachers had fanned out from Delhi after the event and had travelled to several states, visiting Mosques and houses of Muslims. In Tamil Nadu alone, 819 people were listed as ‘suspected cases’ after that they had attended the event in Delhi.

The total number of cases in Tamil Nadu is now 67. TN government has stated that over 1000 people form Tamil Nadu alone had attended the Islamic event in Nizamuddin, Delhi.

A medical camp has been found out within the area and samples are being tested. Drones are deployed to take care of strict vigilance over movements. As per reports, over 2000 people within the area are under quarantine.

As per reports, the people from the Mosque are the most important group of individuals in India being tested for coronavirus. Contact tracing has already been began to identify people that may are exposed in Delhi and Deoband.

The sheer number of gatherers at the religious event among coronavirus suspected cases may be a explanation for worry because not only have they travelled across Indian before the lockdown kicked in, but also the larger possibility of contact transmission everywhere India.

This articale taken refrence from opindia