A youngster from Katghora block of Korba district who was member of ‘Tablighi Jamaat’, on Saturday tested positive for coronavirus, officials here said.
“A-16 year-old boy, who was staying in a mosque at Katghora in Korba district has tested positive for coronavirus,” communication officer AIIMS, Raipur HS Sharma, said.
Notably, this is the tenth case of COVID-19 positive in Chhattisgarh.
“The youth has no foreign travel history but is linked to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Delhi’s Nizamuddin. About a month back, he had returned from Maharashtra and was staying in the mosque in Katghora since then,” superintendent of police (SP) Korba Abhishek Meena said.
Only the youngster has tested positive while others were reported to be negative, the SP said, adding that as per the new instructions, the quarantine period has been extended up to 28 days.
It may be mentioned that more than 101 people in Chhattisgarh were either quarantined or isolated at home after they had returned from the Tablighi Jamaat’s religious congregation held in Delhi a couple of weeks back.
Six people at the congregation had tested positive for Covid-19, following which states across the country were alerted to trace and quarantine the people who had attended the religious congregation.
Until now, out of the ten, four Covid-19 patients in the state, have been discharged from hospital after they recovered from the viral infection.