Tablighi Jamaat Markaz event attendees significantly added to India’s Covid-19 cases on Wednesday as state governments continued to trace, quarantine and test those who were present at the congregation between March 1-15. By Wednesday night, the total number of positive novel coronavirus cases in India was 1,998, with at least 58 deaths.
On Wednesday, over 5,000 of those identified to have attended the congregation have been quarantined, including in hospitals across states, while efforts are on to trace another 2,000 including in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.
Experts believe these numbers are likely to go up as several hundred attendees of the religious congregation in south Delhi’s Nizammudin area showed symptoms of Covid-19, their test results are awaited.
Meanwhile, the common people continued to suffer on Day 8 of the nationwide lockdown as essential commodities remained in short supply across the nation. While shopkeepers blamed it on the absence of supply chain, the government assured that it was working to ensure that at least 2 lakh trucks ply on the roads by Thursday, delivering essential food items and medicines.
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