-Newslaundry.com Communal hatred, fake news, conspiracy theories, misinformation, misreporting. The coverage of the Nizamuddin congregation had it all. Having recovered from Covid-19, more than 200 followers of the Tablighi JAMaat are donating plasma to Delhi’s hospitals. Blood plasma containing antibodies against coronavirus from recovered patients is given to severely ill people to help them fight off the infection. It’s an experimental treatment known as convalescent plasma therapy. The donation by the Tablighis...
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India was Never Close to a 7-Day Doubling Growth Rate of COVID-19 Cases -Aravindhan Nagarajan
-Newsclick.in “If we compare Tablighi JAMaat congregation and if that had not taken place, our doubling rate is 4.1 days and had those cases not happened the doubling rate would be 7.4 days right now,” the MoHFW had claimed. On April 5, officials of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) of the Government of India made a claim: “If we compare Tablighi JAMaat (TBJ) congregation and if that had not...
More »Explained: Sampling bias drove sensationalist reporting around Tablighi coronavirus cases -Shoaib Daniyal
-Scroll.in The large proportion of Tablighi positives is simply due to the large number of people who were tested from the event, even as overall testing remains low. Like the rest of the world, India is battling the coronavirus pandemic. However, here the public conversation over the past week has focussed inordinately on only one facet of the disease: its link with the Tablighi JAMat, a Muslim religious group. A Tablighi JAMat event,...
More »Fighting Covid Will Be a Long Haul but Normal Life Does Not Need to be Kept on Hold -Prem Shankar Jha
-TheWire.in Before it is eradicated, the novel coronavirus can be tamed, but this will require the rapid implementation of an action plan that is humane, rational – and unafraid of the fiscal beancounters. It’s too late. The COVID-19 horse has bolted and closing the barn doors now will not bring it back. Despite Narendra Modi’s all-India lockdown, the number of people testing positive for the virus has risen sharply during the past...
More »Explained: Who are the Tablighi JAMaat? -Stanly Johny
-The Hindu The Islamic Organisation has presence in 150 countries and millions of followers The Tablighi JAMaat, a little known Islamic organisation, has been at the centre of a controversy after dozens of people who attended a religious congregation the group held at its headquarters in Delhi in March tested positive for COVID-19. At least 2,000 people, both from across the country and foreign nations such as Indonesia and Malaysia, had attended...
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