New Delhi: Thowheed Jamaath's international religious conference held in Nizamuddin here has come under the government's scanner as many people who took part in the conference tested positive for COVID-19.
Islamic preachers from Indonesia and Thailand also participated in the conference that was held in the first week of March.
After some preachers from Thailand being found infected with COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu, there was panic in the state, followed by which, several people who came in direct contact with the Thai nationals also tested positive for the virus.
According to an estimation of the TN government, around 1,500 people from the southern state had taken part in the conference.
"We traced about 981 people, out of which, 16 have tested positive for COVID-19. The TN government is on the job to trace the remaining people," a government statement reads.
The government says that people from Ariyalur, Thiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Pudukkottai, Erode, Trichy, and Perambalur districts had attended the religious conference.
As the issue gathered attention, it took the social media by storm.
Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamaath has claimed that none of its members had attended the conference.
It is to be noted that two Thai nationals who came to Delhi for participating in the conference further visited major cities in Tamil Nadu, including Madurai, Erode, Coimbatore and Thanjavur.
In the past two days, 20 cases which had direct and indirect contact with the Thai nationals have tested positive for the pandemic. A lady doctor who treated the Thai nationals has also tested positive for COVID-19 along with her 10-month-old baby and mother-in-law.
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