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300 members of Tableeghi Jamaat shifted to quarantine centres in Khairpur

By Our Correspondent
April 01, 2020

SUKKUR: Some 300 more members of Tableeghi Jamaat suspected of coronavirus positive were shifted to a quarantine centre on Tuesday. Reports said the Khairpur administration had shifted 269 members of Tableeghi Jamaat from the Tableeghi Markaz Khairpur suspecting of coronavirus to a quarantine centre. District health officer Khairpur, Dr Muhammad Hussain Abro, said the screening process of the isolated members of Tableeghi Jamaat was being carried out.

The DHO said after screening, it would be decided to shift them into the isolation ward of the Medical College Civil Hospital, Khairpur, or the entire Tableeghi Markaz would be declared as quarantine centre. He said there was no foreign national but Pakistani citizens belonging from different cities were shifted to the quarantine centres, while 10 suspects in Kashmore and 14 in Ghotki were kept in mosques and declared the places as quarantine centres.