10 persons who returned from Nizamuddin to Hailakandi tests negative, kept in home quarantine

March 31: The 10 persons who were part of Tabligh-e-Jamaat at Nizamuddin Markaz in New Delhi Jamat had returned to Hailakandi on March 15 are under extended home quarantine. Another nine persons who were not part of Tabliqui Jamat delegation had returned on March 9. All these persons have no symptoms of COVID-19. However, the district administration is closely monitoring them and they are under observation. There is no reason to panic. This was informed by the DIPRO, Hailakandi.

Earlier during the day, State Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted that 299 persons assembled in the Islamic religious congregation in Nizamuddin, New Delhi. However, 2 hours later Assam government got another list of 157 persons who also went there. That takes the total tally of Nizamuddin attended persons from Assam to 456. This was informed by Himanta Biswa Sarma while speaking to journalists. He further said that the numbers may increase. The religious congregation in Nizamuddin has been in the news for being a hot bed of Coronavirus positive persons.

Over 1,000 people have been evacuated from a centre in Nizamuddin West in Delhi till Tuesday morning, amid a novel coronavirus scare at a centre where an Islamic congregation at Nizamuddin in Delhi that has become a key source for the spread of coronavirus in the country. People from various Indian states as well as abroad attended the Tabligh-e-Jamaat at Nizamuddin Markaz facility in March, many of whom have shown symptoms of COVID-19, a Union Home Ministry official said. About 30 of those who attended the Nizamuddin event in mid-March tested positive (not in Assam) and at least three have succumbed to the infection in the last few days.