Nine members of Tablighi Jamaat who had gone to Andhra Pradesh for a religious ceremony in December, returned to Amreli on Wednesday, after which they were sent to quarantine centres by the police.
According to Amreli police, nine workers of Sura faction of Tablighi Jamat, all natives of Amreli district, who had gone to Andhra Pradesh last December and were stuck over there for the past 50 days due to lockdown, returned to Amreli city in their private vehicle.
Police said that none of the workers had attended the markaz event in Nizamuddin of New Delhi earlier this March, which turned into a hotspot for COVID-19 cases later. Amreli is the only green zone district in Gujarat which has till now seen the second highest number of coronavirus cases in the country after Maharashtra.
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