Tablighi Jamaat: 1,800 People Connected to the Event Quarantined, Says MHA

• About 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts have been quarantined till now across the country

New Delhi: About 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts have been quarantined till now across the country in view of the coronavirus infection, a senior home ministry official said on Thursday.

Punya Salila Srivastava, a joint secretary in the Union Home Ministry, told reporters during a daily briefing that out of about 2,000 such Tablighi Jamaat members in Delhi, 1,804 have been shifted to quarantine centres while 334 symptomatic persons have been admitted to hospitals.

.@HMOIndia along with States and UTs launched a massive effort and identified around 9000 Tablighi Jamaat workers and their primary contacts and placed them in quarantine; 1306 of these are foreigners: @MoHFW_INDIA media briefing on #COVID19 #IndiaFightsCorona pic.twitter.com/cvh4cFPgZF

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She said these numbers are a result of a "massive effort" that was undertaken by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in coordination with states to identify Tablighi Jamaat workers or members in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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