Tablighi Jamaat Coronavirus Hotspot Remains Focus on Day 8 of the Lockdown

Continuing the focus of the Tablighi Jamaat coronavirus hotspot, the Centre asked all states and Union territories to launch a contact tracing exercise on a "war footing" of all participants of the congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin.
According to the National Commission for Minorities, the Tablighi Jamaat congregation caused a "big damage" to the government's efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Bihar, an official claimed that four policemen were injured when a group of people belonging to the Tablighi Jamaat attacked them when the cops admonished them for defying lockdown.

In a major relief to students, the Human Resources Development Ministry has asked the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) to promote all students of classes 1 to 8 to the next class in view of Coronavirus situation.

Meanwhile, a village in Maharashtra has decided to implement an unusual form of punishment for repeat offenders of the lockdown -- a donkey parade.

The Delhi government has decided to track the mobile phones of people under quarantine to check their movements, according to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The government has already given 14,345 phone numbers to Delhi Police to be tracked.

The number of cases in Tamil Nadu shot up by 110, taking the confirmed cases in the country to 1,590, according to http://covid.newsclick.in/. Please click the link to know the latest figures worldwide.