People who showed symptoms of the new coronavirus disease Covid-19 being taken to hospitals from Nizamuddin, Delhi, on March 30, 2020.

As many as 24 people who were at a markaz in Delhi's Nizamuddin area have the coronavirus, the city's health minister said Tuesday.

State governments are identifying people who attended a religious congregation there and may have been exposed to the virus, a previously unknown kind that causes a potentially fatal respiratory disease called Covid-19.

Six people who attended the congregation have died in Telangana.

Delhi's health minister Satyendar Jain said the goverment was unsure of exactly how many people were at the markaz building but pegged the estimate at 1,500-1,700, ANI reports.

He said 1,033 people had been evacuated, 334 hospitalised and 700 sent to quarantine centres.

The markaz has written to the Delhi Police to say that decongestion efforts had to be stopped midway when India imposed a countrywide lockdown last week.

Over 1,330 people in India have, or have had, the novel coronavirus, known as Sars-CoV-2. As of writing, 40 have died and over 140 have recovered.

Delhi's caseload is approaching 100.

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