503 who attended Nizamuddin event traced

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 1

With over 500 people who attended the Tabligh-e-Jamaat in Delhi’s Nizamuddin traced to various districts of the state, the health authorities in Haryana have swung into action to contain the damage as many of them could be infected with Covid.

“We have quarantined them all. None of those people will be able to mix up with people for the next 14 days,” Khattar said.

Haryana’s Home Minister Anil Vij said on Wednesday that 503 people, including 72 foreigners, who attended the Tabligh-e-Jamaat congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area earlier this month,have been traced in the state. He said that health teams are at the job after the Haryana Police traced the congregation attendees in various districts.

On the purpose of this group entering Haryana, the minister said that after attending the congregation, they are assigned duties and sent to different places across India to preach. “They stay in mosques, go to people’s homes and hold meetings.” Vij, who also holds the Health portfolio, said.

At Palwal, as many as 12 persons who reportedly attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin in New Delhi last month have been kept in the isolation ward of the civil hospital.

In Panipat, the district police have identified 68 such persons of which two are foreigners. They had returned after participating in the Jamaat in other states. The Health Department’s teams screened them and admitted them to the general hospital. Besides, 20 persons of Adhami village in Sanoli Khurd had returned from Godhra in Gujarat. All have been quarantined at their homes for 14 days.

As many as 25 persons from Sonepat who came in contact with the persons from Maharashtra who visited Sonepat after attending the Nizamuddin congregation have been put under quarantine at different places.

In Kaithal, as many as 10 new patients have been admitted to the isolation ward of the civil hospital. Their blood samples had been taken and sent for testing.

Reports from Karnal said that as many as 15 persons of the district went to Nizamuddin to attend the religious congregation few days back. Of them, 14 are yet to come back. As per the information available, eight personsare admitted in the LNJP Hospital in Delhi, while six of them went abroad.

In Ambala, the health authorities have hospitalised four persons who returned from Nizamuddin and have quarantined 40 others who did not have any symptoms.