Over 25,000 Tablighis quarantined as rising cases keep India on tenterhooks

Since Sunday, 693 new positive cases have been registered, taking the tally to 4,281.

India has quarantined over 25,500 people linked to Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat, and sealed five villages in Haryana, as the total number of Covid-19-positive cases crossed the 4,000-mark, government officials said on Monday.
 

Since Sunday, more than 704 new positive cases have been registered, taking the tally to 4,281. Of these, 1,455 include workers of Tablighi Jamaat and those who came in contact with them, show health ministry figures.
 

So far, 111 people have died of the Covid infection, according to health ministry data. While 63 per cent of the deaths were seen in people above 60 years of age,