The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday said 1,205 people, who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin area last month and later returned to the state, have been quarantined so far.
Speaking to reporters here, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said, "A total of 1,499 have been identified from the state so far who had attended the Jamaat. This includes 301 from Meerut zone, 281 from Bareilly zone, 67 from Kanpur zone, 232 from Varanasi zone, 108 from Lucknow zone, 147 from Agra zone, 56 from Prayagraj, and 213 in Gorakhpur. Of the 1,499, as many as 1,205 persons have been quarantined so far."