It has been a tumultuous month for mirza (Name changed). A native of Tangellamudi at the outskirts of eluru in west godavari district of andhra pradesh, he and three others had set off for delhi on march 6. "We stayed there for a few days and made arrangements for others from the state who were due to arrive later," he said. What was to be a regular visit to a religious conference has however now turned into a massive controversy, as the meeting that mirza and hundreds of others attended, has emerged as the epicentre of the COVID-19 spread in many parts of the country.

 

mirza is the west godavari district President of the Tablighi Jamaat, an international organisation which is now under the spotlight after scores of them including many foreign nationals who had participated in the weeks long conference in march, tested positive for COVID-19. Among them, six have died in telangana, while one man from Karnataka’s Tumakuru is also dead. mirza himself has tested positive for coronavirus. 

 

According to available data, so far almost 300 people who attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin between march 8 and march 21, have tested positive for coronavirus. This includes 190 patients in Tamilnadu; 24 in Delhi; over 50 patients in Andhra Pradesh; at least 15 in Telangana; 10 in andaman and Nicobar islands; two in Puducherry; and five in Assam. Around 1,500 persons from tamilnadu, and over 1,000 members each from telangana and andhra pradesh are believed to have participated in the meeting in Nizamuddin. karnataka and kerala governments have said that around 1500 and 270 people from their states respectively were participants.

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