Delhi religious centre becomes India’s latest virus hotspot


A police officer wearing a protective mask walking along an overpass inside the empty Delhi Junction railway station during a lockdown imposed due to the coronavirus in New Delhi. Indian Railways, the world’s fourth-biggest network, is converting at least 5,000 coaches into isolation wards amid fears the world’s most populous country after China may not have adequate infrastructure to deal with the pandemic. - Bloomberg

NEW DELHI: A large religious gathering in India’s capital New Delhi has emerged as one of the country’s 10 (Covid-19) coronavirus hotspots, with at least six deaths and 37 positive cases found so far.

Infections spread when about 2,000 Muslim devotees, including some visiting from Indonesia and Malaysia, attended a gathering at the Tabligh-e-Jamaat’s Markaz in New Delhi’s tightly packed Nizamuddin area in mid-March.

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