57 tested positive for coronavirus in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday with the total number rising to 124. This includes 50 who attended an event in Nizamuddin.
Tamil Nadu on Tuesday registered 57 new COVID-19 cases, the highest spike in a single day so far, including 50 who had travelled to Delhi to attend a religious congregation earlier this month, the government said.
The total number of coronavirus cases stood at 124 in Tamil Nadu, with at least 77 of them having links to the congregation held in the national capital’s Nizamuddin area recently.
All of those tested positive on Tuesday have been admitted to medical college hospitals in Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli, Chennai and Namakkal and are stable, Health Secretary Dr Beela Rajesh said.
On Tuesday morning, the government health bulletin said there were seven new coronavirus cases of which five were traced to have attended the event in the national capital.
The aggregate number of virus cases stood at 124 in Tamil Nadu, with at least 77 of them having links to the congregation.
With this, the government identified two new clusters in Nammakal and Tirunelveli districts, apart from the one that was detected in Erode district on Monday from where 10 cases were reported.
“We are in the process of using the police department to trace the people who attended the conference. Some of them have given phone numbers that are switched off now,” Rajesh said while urging the attendees to come forward on their own, failing which the entire state would suffer.
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The government said that of the approximately 1,500 people who took part in the meet in Delhi, 1,131 had returned, about 800 were traced and 300 could not be found so far and the rest were quarantined by the authorities in Delhi.
The Markaz or centre of a Muslim religious group called Tabligh-e-Jamaat based in Delhi’s Nizamuddin West has emerged as a hotspot of coronavirus as 24 people tested positive for COVID-19 following which the neighbourhood has been sealed and an FIR lodged against its cleric for violating government orders.
Six people from Telangana and one from Jammu and Kashmir, who attended the event, died due to COVID-19. Twenty-four attendees have tested positive in Delhi, six in Telangana, 10 in Andamans and one in Kashmir after attending the gathering besides 50 in Tamil Nadu.
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