Last accessible batch of Tablighi activists quarantined
Our Bureau
AGARTALA, April 06. 2020: Last accessible batch of 10 Tablighi Jamaat activists in Tripura, five of them women, have been quarantined, health officials said Monday. They hail from Maharashtra and got stranded in Tripura owing to national lockdown.
The Task Force on Covid-19 and health officials escorted by a security contingent transferred them to a quarantine facility from a privateresidence at Bitarban locality here Saturday. Health officials earlier
had visited hem during lockdown and conducted checks on them, but none was found with symptoms of infection.
However, authorities finally decided to send them to institutional quarantine to dispel fear from mind of people, an official said.
Roop Ahmed, owner of the three-storey building where the missionaries were staying, and 5 members of his family were also quarantined.
Officials confirmed that the group had not visited the Markaz (the Centre) at Nizamuddin in New Delhi, which is the headquarters of Sunni Muslim missionary movement called Tablighi Jamaat.
With this, around one hundred Tablighi Jamaat activists, their family members and contacts sent to two quarantine facilities in Agartala. Government officials said people in isolation are comprised of those
who attended Markaz congregation at Delhi last month.
Meanwhile two of 11 member Tablighi team from Boxanagar in Sepahijala district tested positive at Rajasthan where they went after visiting Delhi Markaz. Test results of nine of the group came negative, but they were quarantined in compliance with health protocol.
Another young Tablighi was also infected with coronavirus and currently undergoing treatment at Guru Teg Bahadur Government Hospital in New Delhi.
Health officials confirmed that no Covid-19 positive case detected in Tripura so far.