AURANGABAD/CHANDIGARH : Local authorities sealed Nanded’s Hazur Sahib gurdwara on Friday, hours before Punjab reported that 91 more people who returned from the shrine in Maharashtra had tested positive for coronavirus.
So far, 197 pilgrims out of the 3,500 brought back from the Maharashtra gurdwara, among the holiest sites in Sikhism, have contracted the infection, according to authorities in Punjab.
The returning pilgrims formed the bulk of 105 fresh cases reported in Punjab on Friday. The 197 Nanded pilgrims are a third of the 585 confirmed coronavirus cases reported so far in Punjab.
Taking into account the 20 deaths and people who have recovered, they represent about 40% of the “active cases" in the state.