A day after six people attending a religious gathering near the Nizamuddin Dargah tested positive for coronovirus disease (Kovid-19), authorities are searching for those who have increased police presence in the area Had participated in the event.
In the last two days, the Delhi Police and Health Department have taken at least 220 people from the Nizamuddin area to two different quarantine facilities at Tughlakabad and Lok Nayak Hospital, a police officer who did not want to be named.
Another police officer said that in the second week of March, there were many foreign nationals in a gathering held inside a mosque.
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A Delhi Health Department official said that people from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Telangana and Tamil Nadu attended the gathering in an area with high population density in violation of government orders.
The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the six who tested positive are believed to have traveled from Andaman. He had no history of traveling abroad.
“They were staying with a group of people for some religious gathering,” said the health officer. “Activities are now underway to locate people who may come in contact with them.”
Earlier this month, the Delhi government banned religious, social, cultural and political gatherings of more than 50 people by 31 March in view of the outbreak of coronovirus.
Later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockout of 21 days from 25 March to prevent the spread of coronoids.
“There is a lockout in the entire city. Now with some cases of people showing symptoms of Kovid-19 reported from the Nizamuddin area, we have deployed more police personnel in market places and streets to ensure that people follow the lockdown. Our officials on the ground are helping the government officials in Nizamuddin Basti area, ”Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-East) RP Meena said.
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Twenty-three people tested positive for Kovid-19 in Delhi on Sunday, taking the total number of cases to 72, according to city health officials. This was the biggest jump in a single day reported from the city.
So far there have been two deaths from Delhi – a 68-year-old woman from Janakpuri and a 62-year-old Yemeni man who was in Delhi for his son’s liver transplant
