Gloom shrouds Chhattisgarh as the highest single-day spike in the Covid-19 cases was recorded on Thursday, with seven people tested positive at Katghora area in Korba district, taking the number of coronavirus active cases to nine in the state.
State’s health minister TS Singhdeo told newspersons that all the seven new cases are linked to Tablighi Jamaat and are suspected to be have been infected by a boy, who had earlier tested positive for the virus after he returned from the religious congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin.
The seven new people who tested positive for the virus in the state on Thursday include six men and a woman, the minister said.
Earlier, there were 10 positive Covid-19 cases in the state and after nine of them recovered and were discharged, only one person—a youngster from Katghora linked to Tablighi Jamaat—was still undergoing treatment.
One more person, a 52-year-old man from Katghora, has tested positive on Wednesday.
The case is different from the others as the person who tested positive, did not have any travel history abroad or to any other state, although he had come in contact with the youngster, who returned from Tablighi Jamaat Markaz in Nizamuddin, official sources in AIIMS, Raipur said.
