One more tests positive for corona in Jaunpur

Varanasi: One more youth has been tested Covid-19 positive in Jaunpur district.
The 32-year-old, youth who belonged to ‘Nai Jamaat’ of Delhi, was caught hiding in mosques and other places of the district during the drive launched to detect people associated with the Tablighi Jamaat (TJ). With confirmation of the infection in this youth, the number of Covid-19 positive cases reached five in Jaunpur district.
Talking to TOI on Wednesday, divisional commissioner, Deepak Agrawal, said that the sample of the youth, who had been quarantined at ITI College Siddiqpur in Jaunpur district, was confirmed Covid-19 positive by BHU laboratory on Tuesday.
“After investigating his travel history, it came to light that the youth, after attending congregation of Nai Jamaat in Delhi, went to Varanasi with a group of 15 on February 29 and from there he travelled first to Jaunpur and then to Maharajganj with his group. He again came back to Jaunpur and camped at different places”, Agarwal said.
The commissioner said that during the drive launched to search TJ event attendees, the youth was caught and kept in a quarantine centre in Siddiqpur. Before allowing him to leave, his sample was collected and sent for laboratory test which confirmed him Covid-19 positive, he added.
The district officials said the first infected person was found in Jaunpur district on March 23 while on April 2, two TJ attendees, including one from Bangladesh and the other from Ranchi in Jharkhand, were caught from Lal Darwaza mosque who tested positive.
A youth of Devgaon village in Badlapur, who had returned from Deoband, was tested Covid-19 positive in the district on April 8, they said.