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Tripura yet in Safe-Zone as all suspected COVID-19 persons in Nizamuddin case tested 'Negative' : Second round of test’s result to be announced tomorrow
TIWN April 2, 2020
Tripura yet in Safe-Zone as all suspected COVID-19 persons in Nizamuddin case tested 'Negative' : Second round of test’s result to be announced tomorrow
PHOTO : Health Dept's Press meet in Secretariat. TIWN Pic April 2, 2020

AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, April 2 (TIWN): In a major relief for Northeast state Tripura, out of 72 Delhi's Nizamuddin returnees, 54 persons were tested negative whereas the second round of tests have also been done but the report will come to media by tomorrow. Addressing media, Health Secretary Debasish Basu said, today total 161 persons were tested (including Nizamuddin returners) and all are found negative. Total 54 Nizamuddin returnees were also tested who are in quarantine. However, they are 72 in total including relatives and area’s people but 54 persons till now got their results as "Negative". By tomorrow all the Nizamuddin returning people’s tests results will come out. “From yesterday the Nizamuddin issue created a tension and Govt identified 72 persons as COVID-19 suspected, sent in quarantine. In the first round of sample of 54 persons, all resulted negative and today also second round of tests were done and the reports will be given tomorrow", said Health Secretary Debasish Basu.

When it’s a relief for Tripura, many other Northeast states are already in COVID-19 trap. In Assam, the pandemic spread affecting 16 in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh-1, Manipur-2, Mizoram-1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBkRODGocjE&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR09bglGt-az1CjrmcDINiLAuQ69WpZYXA1y08_gaBLGUVOcxQpivwazCmY All 54 persons, who were tested as COVID-19 suspect in Nizamuddin issue resulted Negative. No Postive Case in Tripura yet. Health Secretary addressing media. TIWN Video April 2, 2020

In whole Tripura total 18 families have been identified for joining the Nizamuddin programme in Delhi which has spread Corona-virus like fire in India. That programme was attended by over 2,000 delegates, including from Indonesia and Malaysia, attended the Tabligh-e-Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin West from March 1-15. An official said that from West Tripura 14 families, from North Tripura-1, Gomati Tripura-1 and from Unakoti-1 totalling 18 families are COVID-suspected. However, the officials told media that public's main duty is to stay home and to maintain social distances. Today, a medical team has visited in the affected areas in Agartala (West District) and talked to the families, taken them to institutional quarantine. They said, in all Districts department's officials are doing their jobs sending the suspected families to quarantine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ay5vRIZ-fE&feature=youtu.be 14 families have been taken to institutional quarantine (West District) after they attended Nizamuddin programme, Delhi which spread Corona-virus. TIWN YouTube Video April 1, 2020

The medical team has said that the families are very much cooperating with the official team and thus they are not facing any problem to take them to quarantine. 

In whole Tripura total 18 families have been identified for joining the programme. 

More than a hundred people have tested positive for coronavirus and a nationwide manhunt is on for suspected cases after a large religious gathering at Delhi's Nizamuddin that has emerged as a virus hotspot with links to seven COVID-19 deaths. 

Nearly 2,100 people have been evacuated from "Markaz Nizamuddin", the Delhi headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat group, since Sunday and at least 441 in Delhi have shown symptoms of the virus. In the middle of a national lockdown, hundreds of people had been staying at the facility for weeks. Over 1,100 are now quarantined in different parts of the city and lanes near the religious centre have been taped off by officials in hazmat suits. A police case has been filed against the mosque administration. 

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