Bhubaneswar: Responding to an appeal by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, 42 more people, who had returned to the state after attending the Tablighi Jamaat Markaz event in Delhi’s Nizamuddin, have registered with the government, Chief Spokesperson on COVID-19 Subroto Bagchi informed on Tuesday.
Earlier, the government had identified 28 Jamaat members and one among them from Cuttack had tested positive for COVID-19.
It had also traced Tablighi Jamaat links to the first three cases, who are brothers, reported from Bomikhal in Bhubaneswar as their father, who stays in Bhopal, had tested positive for COVID-19 after attending the event.
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