Hyderabad: Six people from Telangana, who travelled to New Delhi’s Nizamuddin area to attend a ‘Markaz’ (religious congregation), have died after suffering from the novel coronavirus, said the Telangana government in a late night development on Monday.
The meeting in the country’s capital was held from 13-15 March, and the government has asked those who attended it to come forward and promised free treatment to them.
Of the six who died, two of them passed away at the state-run Gandhi hospital (which has been turned into the sole treatment centre to treat Covid-19), while others died in private hospitals, said a statement from Telangana chief minister K.