Authorities in India have used cell phone towers, databases and even village volunteers as part of efforts to track down people linked to the country’s largest reported coronavirus cluster
Residents stand guard next to the barricades which they have used for blocking the road connecting to Nizamuddin area where hundreds were taken away to be quarantined amid coronavirus disease fears, in New Delhi, India, April 1, 2020. Picture taken April 1, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
With authorities concerned the outbreak has spread the virus across India, the incident has fanned communal tensions just weeks after Hindu-Muslim riots in the capital killed more than 50 this year. A spokesman for the Tablighi Jamaat group, Mujeeb ur Rehman, denied that the headquarters was a big source of India’s coronavirus cases: “India by then had already hundreds of cases. So, it will be wrong to say that Markaz was a major source of outbreak in the country.”Tablighi Jamaat is an orthodox Islamic missionary movement with members across the world.
But the Tablighi leaders said their headquarters remained open for several days until Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a one-day citizen’s curfew on March 22.The group said it was able to move out around 1,500 people before the countrywide lockdown came into force, but that hundreds remained stranded inside. “After the lockdown was announced, it was impossible to further vacate the Markaz,” one of the Tablighi leaders said.
About 370 people travelled from Tablighi Jamaat’s headquarters to Andhra Pradesh, according to a state government note reviewed by Reuters. But cases linked to the Nizamuddin Markaz have already been reported from as far away as the Himalayan Kashmir region in the far north to the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the east and the rugged northeastern state of Assam, according to interviews with local officials and public data.
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