Man is called coronavirus super-spreader after his J&K-Delhi journey

Tracking the travel history of the man, who was in his mid-60s, officials said many of the passengers travelling with him in the trains have been put under quarantine

Current Affairs A Srinagar-based businessperson went via air, train and street to Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and back to Jammu and Kashmir before he passed on of COVID-19, and may have tainted numerous others, including a specialist engaging for life in a Jammu medical clinic, authorities said on Tuesday.

 

The representative, who went to Delhi to go to a Tablighi Jamaat assemblage, passed on March 26 of every a Srinagar clinic, 19 days after he set off for the national capital.

 

He could have tainted scores of individuals during his movements and around 300 individuals have been put under isolate as a result of him, authorities said.

 

Recapping his developments, they said he left via air from Srinagar to Delhi on March 7 to go to the gathering of the Tablighi Jamaat, a standard Muslim association at the focal point of the coronavirus spread with 24 of the 2,000 odd members testing positive.

 

Six individuals in Telangana who went to the gathering in the city’s Nizamuddin West zone passed on Monday.

 

Being alluded to as an “excessively spreader” by certain, authorities said the Kashmiri representative left Delhi on March 9 and took a sleeper mentor of a train for Deoband, where he went to a gathering at the Darul Uloom theological school. After two days, on March 11, he took another train to Jammu.

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