COVID-19: One More Person From Odisha Who Attended Nizamuddin Prayer Meet Traced To Kendrapara

Kendrapara: The district authorities have identified one person, who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi earlier last month.

“He has been put in hospital isolation and his family quarantined,” informed Kendrapara Collector Samarth Verma.

On Tuesday, Chief Spokesperson on COVID-19 Subroto Bagchi had told the media that the state government had traced three persons, who had returned to Odisha after taking part in the event, and they are in official quarantine.

Nizamuddin has set off several COVID-19 clusters. While seven persons have died, nearly 100 Delhi mosque-linked positive cases have been reported from different parts of the country so far and a nationwide manhunt is on for suspected cases.

50 have tested positive in Tamil Nadu, 24 in Delhi, 21 in Telangana, 18 in Andhra Pradesh, 10 in Andamans and one each in Assam and Kashmir after attending the gathering, according to NDTV.

OB Bureau

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