Last month, reportedly more than 100,000 people attended an Islamic gathering in Lahore despite the worsening coronavirus pandemic.
Pakistan has quarantined 20,000 worshippers and is still searching for tens of thousands more who attended an Islamic gathering in Lahore last month despite the worsening coronavirus pandemic, officials said Sunday.
In northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, authorities have so far quarantined 5,300 Tablighis or Islamic preachers who attended the Lahore meeting. About 7,000 have been quarantined in the central Punjab city Lahore, while in southern Sindh province up to 8,000 Tablighis have been quarantined, government officials said.The Tablighi mosques and the movement's other places of worship were shut down or marked as quarantine centres at the end of March.
Tablighi Jamaat is considered one of the world's largest faith-based movements, with millions of followers, particularly in South Asia, and sends preachers to countries to spread Islam's ideas. Gaza's health ministry confirmed last month its first two cases of coronavirus were Palestinians who had attended the gathering.
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