A massive hunt to track down Tablighi Jamaat members who attended a Nizamuddin markaz in Delhi in the second week of March bore fruits when 1,172 persons were traced to different places of Uttar Pradesh and 884 of them were quarantined.
Besides, 287 foreign missionaries were also identified and 286 of them were put in quarantine.
The police seized 211 passports and registered 32 FIRs against them so far.
Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus positive patients across the state rose to 121 on Thursday, while two people died and 17 recovered and were discharged.
Principal Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad told media persons in Lucknow on Thursday that 429 samples of quarantined Tablighi Jamaat members were sent for testing and more samples would be sent soon.
However, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi disclosed that two Tablighi Jamaat attendees, one in Ghazipur and another in Meerut, were found coronavirus positive.
He said that of the 1,172 Tablighi Jamaat members tracked by the police, most did not attend the Nizamuddin markaz conclave in Delhi but were in touch with the attendees.
Meanwhile in Auraiya, 13 members of Tablighi Jamaat were quarantined after medical check-up in the district. Whether they attended the Nizamuddin markaz meet in Delhi was being ascertained.
Officials said on Thursday that of the 13 persons, 11 were from Shamli while two were from Telangana. They reached Shamli about 15 days back and after staying at a mosque in Auraiya, they also stayed in other mosques in Khanpur town. Following the lockdown, the group stayed at Kuraishiyan mosque.
During probe, it surfaced that Tablighi Jamaat members were staying in Khanpur town. After this, Chief Medical Officer Archana Srivastava got all these people thermally scanned and everyone was found to be normal. After the medical check-up, they were quarantined in a building in Khanpur town and will be monitored for the next 14 days.