India, Pakistan zoom in on tabligh group cluster

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Tablighi Jamaat is a Deobandi Sunni Muslim missionary movement that preaches worldwide.

Every year, tens of thousands attend its congregations in the Pakistani city of Lahore and other parts of South Asia.The numbers are small compared with the United States, Italy or China but health officials say both countries have weak public health systems that could be overwhelmed by a surge in cases.

Hundreds of people were crammed into the building until the weekend, when authorities began taking them out for testing. More buses arrived on Tuesday to take them away to quarantine centres in another part of the city. In Pakistan, the Lahore Tablighi centre was sealed off and dozens of other preaching centres across the country were placed in quarantine after 143 Tablighi members tested positive and three died, officials said.

Musharraf Ali, an administrator of the Tablighi centre in Delhi, said the group had been seeking help from police and the city authorities to deal with the large number who were unable to leave after the government announced a lockdown.

 

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