‘Endless list’ of people from Assam at Nizamuddin Markaz event

Addressing a press conference here today, state Health Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “Everyday we are getting news that more and more people had attended

the Tablighi Jamaat at Nizamuddin Markaz. We want it to be proven wrong, but whenever we approach these new people, we learn that they had indeed attended it.”

“This is proving to be an endless list,” he said, urging the people to voluntarily come out for testing.

He said, “We are not being able to exhaust the list of people who had attended the congregation. It is our humble appeal to these people and leaders of the Jamaat to please report to the department. We are not getting their cooperation as needed.”

“So far, we had not spoken of any action. But if these people fail to come out voluntarily by tomorrow, we have to take action. The Health department will then have to ask the Police to find them out,” the minister said.

The state government had earlier informed of having a list of 503 names who had either attended the Nizamuddin Markaz event or were in that area in Delhi last month,
with the minister today claiming that more names are being added to the list.

Swab samples of 812 people linked to the Nizamuddin Markaz congregation have been collected so far, out of which 24 have tested positive and 636 negative, while results of rest are awaited.