Lahore (HRNW) Pakistan has quarantined 20,000 worshippers and is still searching for tens of thousands more who attended the Tablighi Jamaat’s gathering in Lahore last month despite the worsening coronavirus pandemic, officials said Sunday.
Authorities said they want to test or quarantine those who congregated at the event held by the Tablighi Jamaat — an Islamic missionary movement — between March 10-12 over fears they are now spreading COVID-19 across Pakistan and overseas.
More than 100,000 people went to the gathering, organisers said, undeterred by government requests for it to be cancelled as the virus hit the country.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the authorities have so far quarantined 5,300 Tablighis or Islamic preachers who attended the Lahore gathering.
“Health officials are conducting tests for coronavirus and some of them have tested positive,” Ajmal Wazir, a spokesperson for the region.
Wazir said thousands of Tablighis from his province were stranded in other regions because of the closure of major highways across the country.
Be the first to comment on "20,000 Tablighi Jamaat members quarantined in Pakistan after major search"