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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2023
Huge number of foreigners hidden inside India as potential carrier of coronavirus

Coronavirus chronicle

TBS Report
04 April, 2020, 11:20 am
Last modified: 04 April, 2020, 11:23 am

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Huge number of foreigners hidden inside India as potential carrier of coronavirus

Delhi Police are in search for around 800 foreigners who came to India to attend tablig jamaat, as they suspect it could be a big coronavirus positive cluster

TBS Report
04 April, 2020, 11:20 am
Last modified: 04 April, 2020, 11:23 am
Over 200 people who attended the congregation and have shown Covid-19 symptoms have been kept in isolation in hospitals in Delhi. Photo: PTI via India Today
Over 200 people who attended the congregation and have shown Covid-19 symptoms have been kept in isolation in hospitals in Delhi. Photo: PTI via India Today

Delhi Police found that foreign nationals have been staying in different mosques in the national's capital besides that one Delhi mosque ehich has been found as the hotspot of spreading Covid-19 in India. They have listed 16 mosques for this matter.

Delhi Police has sent an urgent letter to the Delhi government for assistance to locate the remaining foreigners as they can be potential bearers of coronavirus right now, reports Hindustan Times.

Investigators were prepared to find 187 foreigners and two dozen Indian nationals who had shifted to the mosques after attending congregation meetings at the headquarters of the religious sect in Delhi's Nizamuddin area.

It turns out they were horribly wrong.

In four days, the combined teams of police, health workers and civil servants widened the net to cover a large number of mosques and have located over 800 foreigners linked to the Jamaat in the national capital. And they still have some more distance to cover.

"The big fear is that many of them would turn out to be positive cases, and could have already infected many others," the official said.

The Jamaat workers have been placed in multiple government-run quarantine facilities across the national capital. The ones who were found hiding in mosques are yet to be tested. That process is expected to begin in a day or two.

A senior official in the Delhi government's home department confirmed the development but underlined that he couldn't put a number on the foreigners found. "We are still in the process of getting final reports from the field," he told Hindustan Times.

But there are some ballpark numbers from some districts. About 100 foreigners had been found in mosques of north-east district, 200 in south-east district, 170 in south district and 7 in west district, a senior official in the security establishment said.

Security agencies who poured over the registers for foreigners maintained at the Markaz found 2,100 foreign nationals had touched base after landing in the country between March 1 and 18. Of them, 216 were still at the Jamaat headquarters when the crackdown took place and 824 had already left for chilla, or proselytising activities.

"We believe that the remaining 900-odd foreigners are mostly hiding in mosques around the city," he said, adding that they were keeping their fingers crossed.

Officials recall that by the time they evacuated the followers from the Markaz this week, 24 people had already tested positive and nearly 200 had symptoms. The Delhi government hasn't received all the test reports. But the Markaz-linked cases already make up for two-thirds of all coronavirus patients in Delhi.

By this evening, the Delhi government counted 386 confirmed coronavirus cases in the city. Of them, a whopping 259 are Markaz Masjid cases. Reports from different parts of the country have also indicated that quite a few people who had attended the Nizamuddin Markaz congregation had tested positive.

Three of Delhi's six deaths are also linked to the Markaz, the biggest hot spot of the Covid-19 infections.

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