Baddi administration moves three Jamaat coronavirus cases to IGMC

Tribune News Service
Solan, April 6

Three of seven people who tested positive for coronavirus in Baddi have been admitted to Shimla’s IGMC Hospital, on official said.

Initial reports said nine people were tested positive, but a second confirmatory report brought down the number to seven, Additional District Magistate and Nodal Officer Vivek Chandel said.

The number includes four Delhi residents who have since been taken to Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital. The remaining three who tested positive had recently participated in a religious congregation in Delhi last month that has since caused a scare among authorities.

Over 1,000 people who attended last month’s Tablighi Jamaat congregation have tested positive for coronavirus. Authorities across the country have since been trying to track down several others who attended the event as well people they have been in touch with.

This takes the number of people who tested positive from Baddi to eight.

Baddi administration said they were now identifying the contacts of Tablighi patients who had come to the Nalagarh Markaz from Ghaziabad. They stayed at the Nalagarh Marka for about two days before heading to Plasra and Nangal mosques.

In another development, Nalagarh Police have booked 43 Markaz attendees for misleading them about their presence at the Nizamuddin congregation in Delhi.

Police used their cell phone locations to find out where they were and have since tracked them, Baddi Superintendent of Police Rohit Malpani.

They have been booked for disobeying a public servant’s order (section 188) and for act that spreads infection (section 269 and 270) of the Indian Penal Code as well as under sections of the Disaster Management Act, 2005.

Himachal has recorded one death from the contagion,