Chennai: Thirteen persons from Virudhunagar district who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat conference in New Delhi were admitted to a government hospital for coronavirus testing.
Virudhunagar Collector R Kannan said they were already in home quarantine. “After there were reports that some of those, from other parts of the State, who had attended the conference testing positive for COVID-19, we have moved them to the isolation ward at Government Hospital in Virudhunagar,” Kannan added.
Stating that all the 13 had no symptoms of the virus, he said moving them to isolation ward was to keep a closer observation on them. Among them, four each were from Rajapalayam, Srivilliputtur and Virudhunagar and one from Aruppukottai.
