How Tablighi Jamaat emerged as the largest known Covid-19 source in South Asia

March 31, 2020 14:59

From Malaysia to Thailand, Pakistan and now India, Tablighi Jamaat has spread the coronavirus further from its large congregations. Read the report here.

Markaz Nizamuddin, the place in Delhi where a religious congregation left several people affected with coronavirus, on Tuesday said it has not violated any provision of the law and offered its premises for setting up a quarantine facility. Markaz Nizamuddin, which is the international headquarters of Tabilghi Jamaat for close to 100 years, will cooperate with the authorities, it said in a statement.

Image: People from the Markaz building await a bus ride to hospital. Pic: ANI

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