110 new +ve cases of COVID-19 detected in Tamil Nadu, all linked to Tablighi Jamaat meet

As many as 110 people who returned to Tamil Nadu from Tablighi Jamaat meet in Delhi tested positive for novel coronavirus on Wednesday.

The fresh cases have taked the total cases in Tamil Nadu to 234, a top health department official said.

This comes as a huge jump in the novel coronavirus cases as Tamil Nadu recorded the highest number of new cases in a single day so far.

Health secretary Beela Rajesh told reporters in Chennai that 110



people, hailing from 15 districts of Tamil Nadu, have tested positive for the contagion.

All of them had participated in the Delhi religious congregation and the tally of Covid-19 cases in Tamil Nadu now stood at 234, Beela Rajesh said.

Around 1,500 people from Tamil Nadu had attended the event last month and of them over 1,131 have returned to Tamil Nadu so far.

All new coronavirus positive cases are linked to Delhi's Nizamuddin event.