All bus passengers from Deoband, Moradabad traced

VARANASI: Police have succeeded in tracing all the passengers of the bus, which had brought students of Deoband and Moradabad to Varanasi, Jaunpur and Chandauli districts.
All of them have also been screened, especially after one Tabhligi Jamaat attendee and two students, including one of Deoband seminary and the other from Moradabad, were tested Covid-19 positive in the last week After the ongoing search operation, two more TJ attendees were detected in Mau till Thursday.
On Wednesday, a student who had returned from Deoband to Jaunpur was confirmed Covid-19 positive. Before him, a student from Islamic institution of Moradabad, who reached his home in Lohta area in Varanasi, and one TJ event attendee, who travelled in the same bus, had already been confirmed as Covid-19 positive.
ADG Varanasi zone Brij Bhushan on Thursday said that following testing of three as Covid-19 positive , the search for all other students from Deoband and Moradabad, who had travelled in the bus after announcement of the lockdown on March 25 to return to their homes in Jaunpur, Varanasi and Chandauli had been intensified. It came to light during the exercise that the bus to bring the Deoband students back to their places was arranged by TJ event attendee. Apart from them, 34 people from Deoband and two from Moradabad had boarded the bus.
Of the total 37 people who travelled in the bus, 22 alighted in Jaunpur, 12 in Varanasi while three went to Chandauli, he said adding, all of them have been searched and screened.
Regarding progress in search operation launched to trace TJ event attendees the ADG said that till Wednesday night Mau police had traced 22 TJ attendees in the district while in the past 24 hours two more were searched after which the figure in this district reached to 24. Tthe total number of TJ attendees in the zone reached up to 218.
Till Wednesday, the number of TJ attendees found in Varanasi zone was 216. The figures of the TJ event participants in Azamgarh (36),. Ghazipur, where 22 Jamaat attendees (including those 11 who had left for Delhi on March 29 after staying in the district), Varanasi (43), Jaunpur (45 including 14 Bangladeshsi, one Nepali and 10 from other states), Bhadohi 16 (including 11 Bangladeshi), Mirzapur (8) and Sonbehadra (17) remained unchanged.