Nizamuddin religious event, the spread of COVID-19 through Clusters

April 1, 2020

Nizamuddin religious event had 1,746 attendees.

‘Clusters’ is the new term that we hear more now. The case count has been increasing aggressively in the COVID-19 affected nations. Health workers have discovered that people who were at one place at the same time in groups got infected. Such groups are known as clusters.

An infected woman, who had frequented the church was the reason for 56% of the cases in South Korea.10% of the cases in Singapore were infected because of a group of people who attended a dinner party.

We have found one such massive cluster in a religious congregation, earlier this week. This religious congregation was held in mid-March in Nizamuddin, Delhi.

Nizamuddin cluster?

There were around 130 cases discovered in this cluster by 9.45 p.m. on Tuesday. All the attendees of the event in Nizamuddin are being tested.

The number of cases in various States linked to the Nizamuddin cluster are as follows:

Tamil Nadu:                         72 cases
Delhi:                                  24 cases
Andhra Pradesh:                          15 cases
Andaman & Nicobar Islands:      10 cases
Telangana:                          6 cases
Gujarat:                           1 case
Jammu & Kashmir:                  1 case
Karnataka:                    1 case
Maharashtra:    1 case

The Ministry of Home Affairs, say that there were at least 1,746 attendees at the Nizamuddin religious event. But the statistics given above are the list of confirmed list of cases till March 30.

The description of the following clusters is as follows:

Cluster 2: Punjab that has revealed 26 cases. Three infected people who came from Germany are responsible for the cluster.

Cluster 3: 25 cases by a family which returned to Sangli, Maharashtra, came from Saudi Arabia

Cluster 4: Bhilwara 23 cases due to the hospital staff in Rajasthan

Cluster 5: 17 cases due to Italian tourists in Rajasthan

Cluster 6: 11 cases in Telangana due to Indonesian tourists.

Cluster 7: 11 cases in Kerala because of the returnees to from Italy

Cluster 8: 10 cases in Pune from a family who returned from Dubai

Cluster 9: 8 cases due to returnees to Karnataka from Mecca.

Cluster 10: 7 cases due to U.K. tourists in Kerala

Cluster 11: 9 cases in Dilshad Garden

Cluster 12: 6 cases due to returnee to Punjab from U.K