The authorities in Bangladesh have put 321 foreign members of the Tabligh Jamaat into two mosques in Dhaka as India has quarantined thousands after hundreds linked to a gathering of the organisation were diagnosed with COVID-19. Tabligh is an organisation based on South Asian Deobandi branch of Sunni Islam. Its members travel to and stay at mosques to preach Islam, reports bdnews24.com. India has detected coronavirus among 650 of those who attended the Tabligh gathering in Delhi. Malaysia had earlier reported spread of the virus from a similar Tabligh gathering while Indonesia had halted the organisation’s event.

Source: bd News24 April 04, 2020 03:33 UTC