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More than 800 foreign Jamaat workers found hiding in Delhi mosques amid lockdown

In the last two days, 600 people linked to Markaz Nizamuddin have been quarantined in Delhi and efforts are underway to trace all their contacts

Gujarat, April 03 (ANI): Medical workers take people who attended Tablighi Markaz of Nizamuddin in New Delhi, to the quarantine facility, in Ahmedabad on Friday. (ANI Photo)

New Delhi: The Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi has emerged as a hotspot for COVID-19 after several positive cases across India were linked to the gathering, including deaths in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana.  As many as 647 positive coronavirus cases have been reported across 14 States whose linkage can be traced to the Tablighi Jamaat cluster at Nizamuddin.

More than 800 foreign Jamaat workers found hiding in Delhi mosques amid lockdown

Early this week when the security establishment and health workers came close to completing the evacuation of 2,300 people from the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters in central Delhi, investigations led the police to conclude that there were more foreigners staying in different mosques in the national capital.

On 31 March, the Delhi Police sent an urgent message to the Delhi Government. It was to seek help to locate the remaining Jamaat workers out of the city’s mosques. The police communication listed 16 mosques.

More than 800 foreign Jamaat workers found hiding in Delhi mosques amid lockdown

As per Hindustan reports, Investigators were prepared to find 187 foreigners and two dozen Indian nationals who had shifted to the mosques after attending congregation meetings at the headquarters of the religious sect in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area.

Now it turns out to be a big mistake as they underestimated the numbers.

The sources claimed that more than 40 per cent foreigners out of 960 came from Indonesia. “379 foreigners came from Indonesia for the Tablighi Jamaat event, followed by the United Kingdom (110), Malaysia (75) and Kyrgyzstan (77),

More than 800 foreign Jamaat workers found hiding in Delhi mosques amid lockdown

In four days, the combined teams of police, health workers and civil servants widened the net to cover a large number of mosques and have located over 800 foreigners linked to the Jamaat in the national capital. And they still have some more distance to cover.

The Jamaat workers have been placed in multiple government-run quarantine facilities across the national capital. The ones who were found hiding in mosques are yet to be tested. That process is expected to begin in a day or two.

647 positive COVID-19 cases linked to Tablighi Jamaat congregation: Health Ministry

In the last two days, 600 people linked to Markaz Nizamuddin have been quarantined in Delhi and efforts are underway to trace all their contacts

According to the Union Health Ministry and Family Welfare’s latest bulletin, 174 people have tested positive for the lethal infection in Uttar Pradesh, including 19 cured and discharged and 2 deaths.