The eight Malaysian Tablighi activists were hiding in the Delhi-NCR region and they tried to take the advantage of a special flight arranged by the Malaysian High Commission for their citizens stranded in India due to the corona-triggered 21-day lockdown.
A team of doctors held a 'routine checkup' of Hazrat Nizamuddin police station staff.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jairam Thakur on Sunday 13 said that the total number of coronavirus cases in the state has reached 13, out of which 6 people had attended Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi's Nizamuddin.
An 80-year-old South African Muslim cleric, who recently returned from India after attending the Nizamuddin congregation, has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, according to his family members.
The chief minister said the "intentional violation of social distancing norms or spreading of chaos", despite the lockdown, are part of a well planned conspiracy, the Uttar Pradesh government said in a statement issued here.
Six persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in the district on Saturday, officials said. All of them had gone to Delhi to attend the religious programme organised by the Tablighi Jamaat and returned to Maharajganj on March 21, they said.
Three Tablighi Jamaat members, including two Bangladeshis, have tested positive for novel coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli where they had gone after attending the Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi in mid-March, officials said on Saturday.
The police investigation further reveals that 10 Tablighi Jamaat members stayed in one of deceased's vacant houses in Dharavi between March 22 anf March 24. Also, Of them, four members visited him before heading for Kerala on March 27.
Amid rising cases of coronavirus, Assam reported four more COVID-19 positive cases on Friday. With this the total number of coronavirus cases reached 24 in Assam, state Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
A police officer said that during raids conducted by the Delhi Police in several places across the national capital, these preachers were found to be hiding in 16-17 places.
The home ministry has blacklisted 960 foreigners, linked to Delhi's Tablighi Jamaat event, and has suspended their Indian visas.
Jharkhand Welfare and Minorities Affairs Minister Haji Hussain Ansari and his family members are in home quarantine as the minister's son had reportedly attended Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi.
Rajasthan reported nine fresh cases of coronavirus on Thursday, with this the total number of COVID-19 cases in the state mounted to 108 while no causality has been reported yet. Meanwhile, three coronavirus patients have been recovered and discharged from hospitals.
Caught in the eye of a storm over sheltering more than 2,000 religious followers in a Delhi mosque during the COVID-19 lockdown, the Amir (chief) of Tablighi Jamaat, Maulana Saad Khandhlawi has been a controversial Muslim cleric for years, especially now, when Nizamuddin Markaz has been identified as coronavirus markaz.
The Odisha government has traced and tested 20 persons associated with the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi, but reports of 15 of them have come negative for coronavirus, an official statement said on Wednesday.
During an interaction over a video link with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the doctor from Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital said people, who were brought from the markaz, were "not cooperating" with the medical staff of the hospital.
Twelve more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Assam on Wednesday, taking the total number of such cases in the state to 13, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
An active member of Tablighi Jamaat, who had attended the Delhi meeting of the organization, died at a private hospital in Hyderabad.
The police have registered the FIR under sections of the Epidemic Disease Act and other sections of the Indian Penal Code for not following government orders on the management of the Markaz in relation to a social, political or religious gathering.
As per Delhi government source, till Tuesday a total of 24 people have tested positive from the Nizamuddin Markaz Masjid so far. From the Markaz, while 441 were taken to hospitals, 1,447 have been put in quarantine.
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