3 more Tablighi members test COVID-19 positive in UP's Shamli, total number in double-digits now

A man, who attended a religious event at Nizamuddin Markaz in New Delhi where many have tested COVID-19 coranavirus positive, arrives to be tested in Allahabad on April 1, 2020. Credit: AFP Photo

Three more Tablighi Jamaat members have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Shamli, taking the total number of COVID-19 patients in the district to 11, officials said on Tuesday.

All three whose test results returned positive Monday evening are from Tripura, they said, adding they had gone to Shamli on March 17 after attending the Jamaat’s Delhi’s Nizamuddin Markaz.

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District Magistrate Jasjit Kaur said the three have been admitted to the COVID-19 hospital at Jhinjhana, which now houses all 11 Jamaat members who have tested positive in Shamli.

On Monday, five Jamaat members – they were also from Tripura – were moved to the hospital after testing positive. Before that, three members – two from Bangladesh and one from Assam – were admitted there.

The administration has begun sanitisation and other preventing exercises in the areas where the 11 stayed.

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