New Delhi: People wearing masks, walk as the police cordoned off an area in Delhi's Nizamuddin after some people showed coronavirus symptoms, in New Delhi, Monday, March 30, 2020. The police took around 200 such people to various hospitals as they participated in a religious congregation at a mosque, few days back. Authorities are facing a challenging task of country-wide mapping of those who attended the congregation. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary)
Nizamuddin Mosque Congregation Case: Six people from Telangana, who attended a religious congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin area died due to the COVID-19, the KCR government said late Monday. Over 2,000 delegates, including from Indonesia and Malaysia, attended the Tabligh-e-Jamaat from March 1-15. A large number of people continued to stay at the Jamaat's 'Markaj' (Centre) even after this period, PTI reported quoting locals. Delhi Police, CRPF officials and medical teams went to the locality late on Sunday night after reports said a large number of people were showing symptoms for the disease.
"Coronavirus has spread among some of those who attended a religious prayer meeting from March 13 to 15 at Markaz in Nizamuddin area in Delhi," according to an official release by the Telangana government. "Among those who attended were some persons from Telangana." Two of the six died at Hyderabad's Gandhi Hospital, one each in two private hospitals, and one each in Nizamabad and Gadwal towns, the statement said, without mentioning the time of their deaths. The Telangana government has begun the process of contact mapping of all those who attended the Delhi congregation. The special teams under the collectors have identified the persons who came in contact with the deceased and they were being shifted to hospitals.
Meanwhile, in Delhi, police and paramilitary personnel cordoned off a major area in Nizamuddin West in south Delhi on Monday and over 200 people have been kept in isolation in hospitals after several people who took part in a religious congregation there showed symptoms of coronavirus.
The Telangana government asked those who participated in the prayers to inform the authorities. It will conduct tests and offer treatment to them free of cost, according to the release. The government also requested the people to alert if they come to know about those who participated in the prayers.
Earlier a separate government release said a person died of COVID-19 in Telangana, taking the toll to two and the total number touched 77 after six fresh cases were reported on Monday.
As many as 13 patients who underwent treatment for the virus were discharged on Monday, a media bulletin on COVID-19 issued by the state government said.
A techie, the first COVID-19 case in Telangana, has been discharged recently. The state now has 61 active cases, the bulletin said.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had on Sunday said barring a 76-year-old person, who had other ailments, the other patients were doing well.
Rao had said 25,937 people were under surveillance and being watched by 5,746 teams and they would be out of watch after completing their mandated 14-day quarantine period. He had said all those who are under observation would be out of vigil by April 7 if there are no fresh suspected cases.
"From March 30, their time is nearing completion. After that, they do not need to be under any surveillance. By April 7, we will have a situation of zero... We pray God that we should not get new cases," Rao had said.
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