KALABURAGI, The people of the district who panicked over the returnees from Jamaat congregation heaved a sigh of relief ON Friday with throat swab samples of 26 people sent for laboratory tested negative for Covid-19. Deputy Commissioner B Sharat confirmed it. 

After the district administration identified a total of 26 persons who returned from the religious congregation held at Delhi’s Nizamuddin, they were quarantined at the ESIC hospital in the City. In the wake of a surge in the number of Covid-19 positive cases among those attended the prayer, tension gripped the City as some people from the district also attended the congregation. A 60-year-old woman from Shahabad, the wife of the one of those who attended the congregation, tested positive for Covid 19.