In the latest update from the Nizamuddin Markaz case, 15 persons who attended the religious congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin area have been identified in Andhra Pradesh's Srikalahasti.
"When the government has said lockdown it means lockdown. It doesn't matter who you are or which religion you belong to. By not adhering to the lockdown rules set by the government, you are putting not only your life in danger but several other lives too", Nawazuddin Siddiqui said to India TV.
A religious congregation in New Delhi's Nizamuddin has put India in a precarious situation. At least 2,000 people, including foreigners and Indians from across the country, attended a Tabligh-e-Jamaat from March 1-15 in the south Delhi neighborhood.
Three persons who recently returned from Delhi after attending a religious congregation at Tabligh-e-Jamaat's Markaz in Nizamuddin West have been put on quarantine by the Odisha government, an official said on Tuesday.
The Assam government on Tuesday asked the Deputy Commissioners and Superintendents of Police of all the 33 districts to take swift and strict measures to ensure that all those who returned to the state after attending a religious congregation organised by the Tablighi Jamaat in New Delhi are put on quarantine.
Of the 2,000-odd people, including foreigners, who gathered at the Islamic religious centre earlier this month, 24 have tested positive for COVID-19. Sheikh Mohammad Umar, the secretary of Nizamuddin West Resident Welfare Association, claimed that the RWA had brought the issue to the notice of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate concerned, local police and South Delhi Municipal Corporation, but “nothing happened”.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said on Tuesday that 24 people have been found corona positive in the Nizamuddin Markaz, where nearly 2,000 people were stuck, has turned into ground zero of the new cases spiralling out of control following an ijtima in mid-March. Check state-wise list of people attended Tablighi Jamaat in March
One of the 45 pilgrims from Karnataka who visited Nizamuddin Jamaat mosque in New Delhi in early March died of COVID-19, said Health Minister B. Sriramulu on Tuesday.
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