Islamabad:At least nine Tablighi Jamaat activists have been tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Pakistan's Punjab province, taking the total infections to 6,506 in the country, according to a media report on Thursday.
The new cases emerged on Tuesday in different districts of the Punjab province. Two weeks back, 198 Tableeghi Jamaat workers were quarantined in Pakpattan and nine of them have tested positive.
"Their test reports were received and of them, one tested positive for the virus in Pakpattan. Similarly, six other preachers tested positive for coronavirus in Sahiwal and two others tested positive in Bahawalpur," authorities were quoted as saying in the report.
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According to the Johns Hopkins University data, over 2 million people are infected by the virus and more than 1,36,000 people have died of the disease globally.