Gzb identifies 14 who took part in Jamaat
GHAZIABAD: The Ghaziabad health department officials on Tuesday said they have so far identified 14 persons in the district who had participated in the Tablighi Jamaat congregation earlier this month in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area.
The chief medical officer (CMO) said the department will soon put the identified persons under isolation and is tracing those who might have come into their contact apart from others who attended the congregation.
“So far we have identified fourteen persons who had attended the congregation at Nizamuddin. We are in touch with them, and they will soon be taken to isolation wards and their samples will be collected for testing. The majority of these people are from Masuri area, while some are from Muradnagar and Loni. Our teams are tracing others who came into their contact,” Dr NK Gupta, CMO, Ghaziabad, said. “Some of the persons have shown symptoms. We are also tracing their contacts and fear that some might have offered Friday namaz at a mosque on March 20 and might have made direct or indirect contact with many people,” he added.
The Tablighi Jamaat’s headquarters in Nizamuddin has emerged as one of the biggest coronavirus disease hotspots in India with 24 people testing positive till Tuesday evening. In a digital address to the media, Delhi chief minister had said that 441 of over 1,500 persons evacuated from the Nizamuddin area till Tuesday had started showing
Covid-19 like symptoms, including fever, cough, and shortness of breath and warned that this number could go up in the coming days.
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday morning cut short his visit to Ghaziabad and flew to Lucknow where he held meeting with senior state officials after the incident came to light.