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More than 25,000 local workers of an Islamic missionary group and people who came in contact with them have been quarantined as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus, the government said on Monday.
Out of the 4,067 positive coronavirus cases in country, at least 1,445 are related to Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi, said officials of the health and home ministries at a press conference.
Five villages in Haryana where Tablighi Jamaat members stayed have been sealed and quarantined, said Punya Salila Srivastava, joint secretary in the home ministry. As many as 1,750 members of the group based abroad have been blacklisted.
