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Coronavirus: a man in India potentially infected 15,000 villagers

Back from Italy, the epicenter of the pandemic in Europe, and from Germany, the 70-year-old guru Baldev Singh went to preach in fifteen villages in the Indian state of Punjab, mostly Sikh, before falling ill and to die.

ATu at least 15,000 people are placed in quarantine in the north of India, because potentially contaminated by one and the same person, a Sikh guru, deceased from Covid-19 and suspected of having been a “superpropagator” of the coronavirus, according to a local manager.

Back from Italy, the epicenter of the pandemic in Europe, and from Germany, the 70-year-old guru Baldev Singh went to preach in fifteen villages in the Indian state of Punjab, mostly Sikh, before falling ill and to die.

This triggered one of the most serious pandemic alerts in India. Special deliveries of food are made to each of the affected households, placed under a quarantine regime even stricter than the 21-day home confinement decreed Wednesday across the country by the government.

“The first of these 15 villages was cordoned off on March 18 and we estimate that there are between 15,000 and 20,000 people in the cordoned villages,” Gaurav Jain, a high magistrate in the district of Banga, told AFP. resided the guru. “Medical teams are standing by and there is regular monitoring,” he added.

Already 90 people who have been in contact with the guru have tested positive for the new coronavirus, said Vinay Bublani, a local police official. And the test results of 200 other people are still pending.

The guru and his two collaborators – also infected – did not comply with the self-containment orders upon their return from Europe and immediately began a preaching tour.

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