As the number of people infected with Covid-19 comes close to 50 in Agra, the district magistrate issued an appeal to senior citizens in the city to avoid going out of their houses.
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District Magistrate Prabhu N Singh and SSP Bablu Kumar held a meeting with the local citizens in the Mantola area of Agra Saturday night.
Mantola is one of areas which have been declared as red zones in Agra after many Tablighi Jamaat members came back from Delhi’s Nizamuddin Markaz and stayed in mosques in these areas.
Moreover, a number of families in the ‘red zone’ areas are suspected to have contracted the coronavirus infection from these Jamaat members.
A couple, Naushad and his wife, from Tila Ajmeri, were hosting wife of five Jamatis, who were staying in a local mosque. All ten (5 Jamaat members and their wife) tested positive for Covid-19.
The health department had quarantined the Jamatis but did not check with Naushad’s family where the wives of the Jamatis were staying.
When the couple started showing Covid-19 symptoms, they were subjected to tests and were found to be positive for coronavirus. Now, both are confined in their home in separate rooms.
The area around the house has been sealed with a barricade and an appeal has been issued to the local residents not to go near that house.
Local citizens have been asked to visit areas of Azam Para, Loha Mandi, Nai Basti, Kotwali, Shahganj, Nai Ki Mandi and Tajganj to check which mosques were hosting Jamaat members previously and also requested the locals, especially senior citizens, to stay indoors for 14 days.In the past 24 hours, 33 new have been reported in Agra, while in the month of March, only 12 cases were reported. Four days into April and the count is already 48.
District Magistrate Singh said that out of the 47 cases, 31 arrived from Delhi’s Nizamuddin Markaz, all were men and staying in 13 mosques across Agra.
Five women who had arrived along with the Jamatis had stayed in the Agra couple’s house.
The district magistrate warned that if people do not obey the lockdown, or will host Jamatis in their houses without informing the police, they will be prosecuted. The rural mosques are also being checked for Jamatis living there.
On April 4, Inspector General of Agra A Satish Ganesh told IndiaToday.in that with the discovery of new coronavirus patients in Agra, several areas of the city were declared red zones and they have been blockaded with restrictions on the movement of people in these zones.
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