Ghaziabad MP and MoS for Road Transport and Highways, General VK Singh during a conversation with India TV on Friday lashed out at those attacking, misbehaving with doctors, others on COVID-19 duty saying strict action should be taken against such people.
A tentative list has been released stating the number of people from different countries who participated in the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi after which coronavirus cases in India exploded and continues to rise.
Andhra Pradesh has witnessed 161 confirmed coronavirus cases till now out of which 140 of them are those who attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi Nizamuddin West, and their contacts, chief minister's office has informed.
According to Jamaat and Delhi Police sources, "One of the wanted accused, who has been given a police notice to be sent to Maulana Saad, is presently kept in a quarantine home at a Tughlakabad school."
On Thursday, two absconding persons, who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi's Nizamuddin last month, were held in Greater Noida and quarantined, police said. Two others, who had provided shelter to the Jamaat attendees, were also arrested and quarantined, they added.
Tablighi Jamaat attendees, who were under quarantine in Ghaziabad's MMG Hospital, were found roaming in the center without clothes, CMO Ghaziabad alleged in a letter to the police today.
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.
Delhi's Lok Nayak (LNJP) Hospital Director Kishore Singh has said that people belonging to the Tablighi Jamaat are threatening doctors and hindering essential work including tests for coronavirus.
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.
Arunachal Pradesh man, who attended Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin West, Delhi has tested COVID-19 positive, making the first case of coronavirus in the state, sources said.
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.
Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday registered 23 FIRs against over 100 foreigners who had violated visa rules and participated in Tablighi Jamaat activities in the state, officials said here.
Some of the Tablighi Jamaat attendees quarantined at a railway facility in Delhi "misbehaved" with and "spit" at doctors and healthcare staff attending to them.
The union health ministry on Wednesday squarely blamed the Tablighi Jamaat gathering, organised between March 13 and 15, for the steep spike in the number of coronavirus cases in the country
An active member of Tablighi Jamaat, who had attended the Delhi meeting of the organization, died at a private hospital in Hyderabad.
After Delhi's Tablighi Jamaat incident, several Bollywood celebrities including Rishi Kapoor, Farah Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui expressed anger on the religious gathering at Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz.
An audio tape of cleric Maulana Saad, who led a huge religious congregation in Nizamuddin West earlier this month, has emerged. In the audio clip, Maulana Saad is heard advising people to not leave mosques amid fears of the spread of the coronavirus.
At least 441 people who attended the religious gathering organised by Nizamuddin-based Tablighi Jamaat are exhibiting symptoms of coronavirus, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said
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