While there is a massive manhunt to identify those attended the religious gathering in Delhi's Nizamuddin which has since emerged as the biggest Covid-19 cluster in India, the attendees who are currently in quarantine are reportedly misbehaving with the medical staff.?
Some of the 160-odd Tablighi Jamaat attendees quarantined at a railway facility in southeast Delhi ¡°misbehaved¡± with and ¡°even spit¡± at doctors and healthcare personnel attending to them, a railway spokesperson said on Wednesday.?
A total of 167 attendees were taken to the makeshift quarantine centres set up on the railway property in Tughlakabad on Tuesday evening after being evacuated from the Nizamuddin Markaz, the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters in south Delhi which has emerged as a COVID-19 hotspot.?
There was also an incident at the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital in Delhi on Tuesday after one of the quarantined men attempted to jump off the building. Some patients also turned aggressive, doctors said.?
Attacks on doctors were also reported from Telangana where a man admitted at the government Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad attacked the doctors, after learning about his elder brother¡¯s death in the same COVID-19 treatment block.Both the deceased and his brother have returned from the Delhi Markaz event and had tested positive for COVID-19.?
Another hugely important task to prevent the spread of COVID-19 across the country has also run into trouble due to the non-cooperation of the event attendees.Despite appeals by the central and state governments for them to report at nearby health facilities, not many have come forward.?
What is even more shocking is that health workers and cops trying to trace them are being attacked.A medical team that had gone to check on a patient with suspected coronavirus symptoms was attacked and pelted with stones in Indore¡¯s Tatpatti Bhakhal on Tuesday.?
A similar incident was reported from Bihar's Madhubani district where stones were pelted at search party who were trying to find out if anyone had participated in the Tablighi Jamaat event.?
"Stones were pelted at police when they went to check if any attendee of Delhi's Tablighi Jamaat event was staying at the mosque," Jhanjharpur DSP Amit Sharan said.?
Meanwhile, Tablighi Jamaat chief Muhammad Saad Kandhalvi who has been booked has been untraceable for days now.?
Since the controversy broke, several audio clips have emerged online purportedly of Saad, asking his followers to not abide by government guidelines about the coronavirus outbreak."Where will you run from death? Death is in front of you... This is an occasion to seek penance from God. Not an occasion where one comes under the influence of doctors and stops Namaz, meeting each other... Yes, there is a virus. But 70,000 angels are with me and if they can't save me, who will? This is the time for more such gatherings, not the time to avoid each other... Who says if we meet then disease will spread? The disease will pass, but eating from the same plate, it will benefit us... This is a plan to end amity between Muslims, to alienate them from each other," he is heard in the audio clip.