Corona Virus Outbreak: What is Tablighi Jamaat and its Related Issues?

COVID-19 All Over the World:

Corona viral disease is continuing its rampage all over the world. Now the whole world is in panic situation and praying the gods for their lives. In Italy daily hundreds of peoples are dying for this disease. In USA the number of affected cases is sky rocketing day by day. Many developed countries’ economy has been hit huge by this COVID-19 spread.

Total cases all over the world – 859768
Total death all over the world – 42430
Recovered people all over the world – 178335

Country	Total cases	Total deaths	Total people recovered
USA	188592	4055	7251
Italy	105792	12428	15729
Spain	95923	8464	19259
China	81554	3312	76238
Germany	71808	775	16100
France	52128	3523	9444
Iran	44605	2898	14656
UK	25150	1789	135
Switzerland	16605	433	1823
Turkey	13531	214	243
Belgium	12775	705	1696
Netherlands	12595	1039	250

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COVID-19 in India:

In India also the viral spread is speeding up. People have to follow the self-quarantine measures for the 21 days in a strict manner.

Total cases in India – 1590
Total death cases in India – 45
Total people recovered in India – 148

What is Tablighi Jamaat?

In the Nizamuddin area of Delhi, Tablighi Jamaat will happen usually. Tablighi Jamaat is the Islamic movement meeting. In the meeting the muslims from various parts of the country will take part. Also the Muslims from foreign countries will also attend the meeting.

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Why Tablighi Jamaat Related in Corona Issue?

The headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat are in the Nizamuddin area of Delhi. The consequences that happened are listed in order.

The recent meeting of Tablighi Jamaat movement happened in the last week of February and first 2 weeks of March 2020.
Including foreigners around 2500 people attended this meeting as per the reports.
On March 16^th, Delhi CM, Arvind Kejriwal announced that no crowd of more than 50 members should be gathered. This announcement is made due to corona disease spread.
Then on March 20^th, it is reported that 10members in Telangana were affected by COVID-19. They were from Indonesia, and all the 10 members have attended the Tablighi Jamaat meeting in Delhi.
The lockdown was implemented in Delhi on March 22^nd.
Then around 1500 people who have attended the meeting in Delhi, returned to the various parts of country on March 23^rd.
On the same March 23^rd, our PM, Narendra Modi announced the national lockdown for the 21 days to control the disease spread.
The remaining 1000 people who have attended the meeting were quarantined in Delhi.

The Delhi CM announced that he will take action on the people who have gathered meeting.

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What Tablighi Jamaat Gatherers Say On this Issue?

The gatherers of this meeting say that they have completed the meeting before the lockdown. As the lockdown was implemented in parts, they stayed in Delhi itself. After the national lockdown, they asked the Delhi CM for their return to own places. Also they said that they gave respect to the PM’s national lockdown announcement. Only for that reason they stayed in Delhi. Also they said that they didn’t violate the rules by roaming outside for unnecessary reasons.

Now some questions have aroused after this issue. They are,

How many people have affected among the 1500, who have travelled to their own places?
To which states those people have returned?
Did those people who returned to Tamil Nadu have self quarantined themselves?
To which states, the foreigners attended the meeting have travelled? Did they violate the visa rules?

What Government Says?

The additional secretary of central health department, Lav Agarwal says that in this situation we should not find fault on any side. Instead, we should take remedial measures to control the disease spread.

People also don’t create a rift among various religions. This is not the time to find difference between the people. The Coronavirus will not affect the people by seeing religion. So we should also stand united to fight against this deadly virus spread.

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