Himanta orders DCs, SPs to take strict measures against Nizamuddin returned persons by evening

March 31: State Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma held an emergent video conference with all the Deputy Commissioner’s and Police Superintendents of the districts of Assam on Tuesday afternoon. The minister has given strict instruction to all of them “to take wift & strict measures for all those who returned from hotstpot at #NizamuddinMarkaz of #TablighiJamaat.” He further directed them to get those Assam returned persons to be quarantined by Tuesday evening.

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Held an urgent Video Conference with all DCs & SPs advised them to take swift & strict measures for all those who returned from hotstpot at #NizamuddinMarkaz of #TablighiJamaat. All of them shall be quarantined by evening.

— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) March 31, 2020

Earlier, the minister in a tweet stated that, “Assam Govt is now in possession of a list of 299 persons who were present in and around the hotspot near Nizamuddin Dargah. We’ve alerted dist admins to find out if these people have returned to Assam, and strict instructions issued to quarantine them if they are in the state” This naturally seems to be a matter of great worry for the people of Assam.

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 and at least three have succumbed to the infection in the last few days.