Over 1,000 people - 711 from Andhra Pradesh (AP) and about 400 from Telangana - may be potential carriers of the novel coronavirus (covid-19) in the two Telugu states, due to the religious congregation held at New Delhi’s Nizamuddin area.
The jolt came on Monday night, when six deaths of attendees were confirmed in Telangana, and since then both states have woken up to the possibility of community transmission.
Telangana and AP have suddenly become potential clusters of covid-19, after it was slowly found out that thousands from across the country and abroad (incuding the 1,000-plus from the two Telugu states) had attended an Ijtema (religious gathering) at the Alami Markaz (meaning centre) Banglewali mosque earlier this month, which was