New Delhi: About 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts have been quarantined till now across the country in view of the coronavirus infection, a senior home ministry official said on Thursday.
Punya Salila Srivastava, a joint secretary in the Union Home Ministry, told reporters during a daily briefing that out of about 2,000 such Tablighi Jamaat members in Delhi, 1,804 have been shifted to quarantine centres while 334 symptomatic persons have been admitted to hospitals. .@HMOIndia along with States and UTs launched a massive effort and identified around 9000 Tablighi Jamaat workers and their primary contacts and placed them in quarantine; 1306 of these are foreigners: @MoHFW_INDIA media briefing on #COVID19