Visa cancelled of 960 Foreign attendees of Tablighi Jamaat
The Union Home Ministry has asked the Delhi Police Commissioner and the state’s DGP to take legal action against 960 Tablighi Jamaati’s from abroad as they have endangered the lives of people in public health emergency due to Covid-19 . The Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday evening asked states to cancel visas of 960 foreigners and prevent them from getting Indian visas again. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, these had entered the country on the strength of foreign tourist visas but were engaged in Tablighi activities at their Nizamuddin headquarters, a group that played a major role in spreading the novel corona virus.
The Health Ministry said on Friday (April 3) that a total of 647 people have been confirmed to have coronavirus infection so far from those who took part in the religious program of Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin area in Delhi. These people belong to 14 states. In the regular press conference, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Luv Agarwal told that in the last two days, 647 people of Tablighi Jamaat have been confirmed to have corona infection. These people are from Assam, Andaman and Nicobar, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
He said that 2301 cases of corona infection have been reported in the country so far. Of these, 56 patients died and 156 patients were discharged from hospital after treatment. Aggarwal said that 12 patients have died in the last 24 hours. Describing the nationwide lockdown as an effective solution to break the chain of infection of the corona, he said that the increase in the cases of infection has been the main reason for the increase in the last few days.
Agarwal said that barring this incident, the pace of new cases was not increasing due to the lockdown and social distancing measures during this period. Agarwal appealed to the countrymen, “We all have to understand that we are battling a contagious disease, so a slight lapse in following the measures to deal with it makes all our efforts futile.”
