In the first week of March, the Tablighi Jamaat held a religious congregation at the New Delhi headquarters. More than 1,000 people participated.
Some of the participants, including senior preachers, had come from countries like Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Indonesia where Covid-19 had already spread. After attending the congregation, the participants left for various states.
Some of them later developed symptoms of Covid-19 but that went unnoticed until a 65-year-old man, resident of Jammu and Kashmir, died on Thursday. Later, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Kerala, West Bengal—states where the participants had visited—also reported cases linked directly or indirectly to the congregation.
Overall, as on Monday, 20 people across states who were linked to the congregation had been confirmed positive for Covid-19 and as many as 1,000 are under watch for disease symptoms.
The four-storey building, known as Banglewali Masjid, is situated close to the dargah of Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya and Ghalib Academy in Nizamuddin West, south Delhi.
It is a tall building with one narrow iron gate for entry. Flung open, it reveals a mini colony —a sprawling pool (wuzukhana) where people prepare for religious discourse, crammed rooms, a huge kitchen and shoe racks.
The first floor has a huge hall with thousands of people sitting there to listen to the preaching by an elderly man. On Monday, sources said, nearly a thousand people were present in the building, many of them from other countries.
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